scholarly journals Infrastructuring the Circular Economy

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1805 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Nogueira ◽  
Weslynne Ashton ◽  
Carlos Teixeira ◽  
Elizabeth Lyon ◽  
Jonathan Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
System Level ◽  
Farmers Markets ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The City

The circular economy (CE), and its focus on the cycling and regeneration of resources, necessitates both a reconfiguration of existing infrastructures and the creation of new infrastructures to facilitate these flows. In urban settings, CE is being realized at multiple levels, from within individual organizations to across peri-urban landscapes. While most attention in CE research and practice focuses on organizations, the scale and impact of many such efforts are limited because they fail to account for the diversity of resources, needs, and power structures across cities, consequently missing opportunities for adopting a more effective and inclusive CE. Reconfiguring hard infrastructures is necessary for material resource cycling, but intervening in soft infrastructures is also needed to enable more inclusive decision-making processes to activate these flows. Utilizing participatory action research methods at the intersection of industrial ecology and design, we developed a new framework and a model for considering and allocating the variety of resources that organizations utilize when creating value for themselves, society, and the planet. We use design prototyping methods to synthesize distributed knowledge and co-create hard and soft infrastructures in a multi-level case study focused on urban food producers and farmers markets from the City of Chicago. We discuss generalized lessons for “infrastructuring” the circular economy to bridge niche-level successes with larger system-level changes in cities.

Navigating Ethnic Hierarchies in Community-Academic Partnerships: A Case Study on Koreatown Community Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 153-179
Author(s):  
Angie Chung ◽  
Johng Song ◽  
Carolyn Choi
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Academic Partnerships ◽  
Communities Of Interest ◽  
The City

Based on the experiences of a Koreatown scholar, the executive director of a Koreatown nonprofit, and a longtime resident student, the article advocates for greater attention to the complex and dynamic power structures of ethnic enclaves in community-academic partnerships. We discuss the changing landscapes of Koreatown as the global nexus of the Pacific Rim economy, the city of Los Angeles’s urban redevelopment plans, and growing diversity and inequality. Programs that aim to engage effectively with ethnic communities must reassess how knowledge is produced and conveyed, how we structure partnerships within stratified communities, and how to grow from issue-based partnerships to broader communities of interest.

scholarly journals Citizen Participation and Machine Learning for a Better Democracy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Procter ◽  
Miguel Arana-Catania ◽  
Felix-Anselm van Lier ◽  
Nataliya Tkachenko ◽  
Yulan He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
City Council ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Democratic Systems ◽  
The City

The development of democratic systems is a crucial task as confirmed by its selection as one of the Millennium Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations. In this article, we report on the progress of a project that aims to address barriers, one of which is information overload, to achieving effective direct citizen participation in democratic decision-making processes. The main objectives are to explore if the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning can improve citizens? experience of digital citizen participation platforms. Taking as a case study the ?Decide Madrid? Consul platform, which enables citizens to post proposals for policies they would like to see adopted by the city council, we used NLP and machine learning to provide new ways to (a) suggest to citizens proposals they might wish to support; (b) group citizens by interests so that they can more easily interact with each other; (c) summarise comments posted in response to proposals; (d) assist citizens in aggregating and developing proposals. Evaluation of the results confirms that NLP and machine learning have a role to play in addressing some of the barriers users of platforms such as Consul currently experience.

scholarly journals PAISAJES URBANOS, DIFERENCIA Y DESIGUALDAD. EL CASO DE LA BOCA EN BUENOS AIRES / Urban Landscapes, difference and inequality. A case study in La Boca, Buenos Aires

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Ana Clara Fabaron
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Spatial Transformations ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Visual Consumption ◽  
City Model ◽  
The City

<p>El propósito de este artículo es reflexionar críticamente en torno a la noción de paisaje y sus vinculaciones con modos -diferenciados y desiguales- de imaginar y habitar la ciudad. El análisis se sustenta en un estudio de caso en La Boca, un barrio de la zona sur de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, donde confluyen procesos de reconversión urbana y déficit habitacional. Desde un abordaje etnográfico junto al uso de fuentes secundarias, el trabajo explora las principales características y transformaciones socioespaciales del barrio en relación con el resto de la ciudad. El artículo focaliza en prácticas de habitantes y usuarios, en diálogo con distintas aproximaciones al concepto de paisaje, y con estudios que destacan la relación entre una estetización de las ciudades contemporáneas y un modelo exclusivo de ciudad. Desde una perspectiva del habitar -centrada en las prácticas urbanas- el enfoque propuesto procura tomar en cuenta las tensiones e imbricaciones entre los paisajes urbanos cotidianos de sus habitantes y los paisajes culturales orientados a un consumo visual, incorporando en el análisis las relaciones desiguales de poder.</p><p><br /><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><br />This article aims to critically reflect upon the notion of landscape and its links with -differentiated and unequal- ways of imagining and inhabiting the city. The analysis is based on a case study in La Boca, a neighborhood in the southern area of the city of Buenos Aires, where urban reconversion processes coexists with housing insufficiency. Through an ethnographic approach supplemented with secondary sources, the paper explores the main characteristics and socio-spatial transformations of the neighborhood in relation with the rest of the city. The article focuses in dwellers and passersby practices, in dialogue with different approaches to the concept of landscape, and with studies that emphasize the relation between the aestheticisation of the contemporary cities and an exclusive city model. From a dwelling perspective -centered in urban practices- the proposed approach seeks take into account the tensions and interweaving between the daily urban landscapes of La Boca’ s dwellers and the cultural landscapes oriented toward visual consumption, incorporating in the analysis the unequal power relations.</p>

scholarly journals Bromine Recycling in the Chemical Industry – An Example of Circular Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (9) ◽  
pp. 737-742
Author(s):  
Francis Pilloud ◽  
Nasibeh Pouransari ◽  
Luc Renard ◽  
Rebecca Steidle
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Synthesis ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Significant Safety ◽  
Recovery Yield

This paper discusses the application of the circular economy concept and industrial ecology approach in the context of industrial chemical sites. A real-life case study about the use of bromine as reactant for chemical synthesis and its recycling by Syngenta in Monthey is described in detail. With a recovery yield of 97% it represents a well-established example of closed loop recycling, one aspect of the circular economy. The process leads to significant safety and environmental risk reduction and economic savings in the order of several million CHF per year.

scholarly journals The Citizens’ Views on Adaptation to Bioclimatic Housing Design: Case Study from Greece

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 4984
Author(s):  
Veronika Andrea ◽  
Stilianos Tampakis ◽  
Paraskevi Karanikola ◽  
Maria Georgopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
Residential Sector ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Design Case Study ◽  
Log Linear ◽  
The City

Bioclimatic housing design is regarded as an important pillar towards energy policies. Additionally, it is closely affiliated with the performance of energy efficiency of buildings. The citizens’ views and their adaptation to energy saving practices can be utilized as an important data base in order to design, improve and properly manage urbanization and environmental challenges in the residential sector. For the capitalization of the citizens’ views in Orestiada, the newest city in Greece, simple random sampling was applied on data that were collected via personal interviews and with the use of a structured questionnaire. Reliability and factor analyses were applied for the data processing along with hierarchical log-linear analysis. The latter was utilized for the statistical clustering of citizens into given distinct groups—clusters, arising by factor analysis. The main findings revealed that the citizens are merely aware of bioclimatic principles, while only a small percentage of 28.8% adopts some primary bioclimatic disciplines. Conclusively, it should be noted that there is a need for effective planning towards empowerment on energy efficiency in the residential sector of the city. Notwithstanding, it should not be disregarded the need for the incorporation of conceptual frameworks in urban planning. This is an approach that prerequisites public awareness and the stakeholders’ participation in decision making processes.

scholarly journals Geografia sociale e partecipazione. L’esperienza di #esserefiera

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Picone
Keyword(s):  
Social Geography ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The City ◽  
Theoretical Dimension

Social geography cannot be confined to a theoretical dimension, however necessary: it is expected to play an active role, to encourage encounters with social actors and stakeholders, to take on a dimension of public engagement. Even in Italy this dimension is increasingly important, as universities are placing a growing value on their so-called third mission. Social geography must then address the fundamental issue of participation and its techniques. In doing so, those who graduate in geography will also be able to claim an essential role in the management of decision-making processes and participatory planning. This paper explores some methods and approaches that younger geographers can use to build the ‘toolbox’ of their future profession, looking at a case study from the city of Palermo.

scholarly journals Circular Economy for Food Policy: The Case of the RePoPP Project in The City of Turin (Italy)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 6078
Author(s):  
Franco Fassio ◽  
Bianca Minotti
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
New Business ◽  
Food Policies ◽  
New Research ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Circular economy for food (CE) and food policies (FP) are two emerging but already prominent research areas, particularly when talking about the cities of the future. This paper analyzes the dynamics between these two fields of research, starting from review articles and the analysis of a case study, underlying the fundaments that FP and CE share. In particular, this paper focuses on using circular economy (CE) indicators and strategies to shape urban food policies (FP) to create a new business and political model towards sustainability. It introduces four converging perspectives, emerging from the literature, and analyzes how they have been integrated in the case study RePoPP (Re-design Project of Organic waste in Porta Palazzo market), a circular project born from the FP of the City of Turin (Italy). RePoPP is indeed a multi-actor project of urban circular food policies against food waste, which demonstrates how a circular approach can be the turning point in the creation of new food policies. This article wants to define for the first time a new research framework called “circular economy for food policy”, along with its characteristics: the application of a systemic approach and CE to problems and solutions, the need for a transdisciplinary and integrated project design for the 9R (responsibility, react, reduce, reuse, re-design, repair, recover, recycle, and rot), the use of food as a pivot of cross-sectoral change, and a new form of collaborative and integrated governance.

Global-City-Formation, Immobilienwirtschaft und Transnationalisierung

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christof Parnreiter
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Global City ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
City Formation ◽  
Office Space ◽  
The City

Global-City-formation and the making of a new “corporate geography“: The case of Mexico City. The paper argues that global-city-formation is a key driving force in the transformation of urban landscapes and in the globalization of real estate markets. Taking Mexico City as a case study it is shown that the growing presence of a) foreign companies and b) advanced producer sector firms increases demand for office space, in particular in the high end spectrum of the market. This demand is met by the production of a new CBD in western parts of the city. Mexico City’s corporate geography is, thus, characterized by two CBD, with the new one housing the majority of firms that entered the Mexican market in the last 15 years. The paper also argues that the new corporate geography is marked by processes of de- and transnationalization, becoming thus step by step detached from the urban fabric.

scholarly journals E-PARTICIPATORY AND COMMUNICATION MOBILE APPLICATIONS: CASE STUDY OF PRAGUE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Fanta ◽  
◽  
Radek Soběhart ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The City ◽  
Google Play

Worldwide usage of mobile Internet significantly increases, which underlines the importance of mobile applications as a tool for involving residents in local public affairs and decision-making processes. However, the Czech level of e-participation is below the EU average in the long term. Using an exploratory case study, tis article aims to identify all available e-participatory and communication mo-bile applications designed for the city of Prague and its inhabitants offered on Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Moreover, using the content analysis method, features of identified mobile applications are explored and described. The majority of identified applications serve as one-way communication channels, and one application has a function that allows it to collect opinions of residents through voting polls. It is essential to significantly increase the user base of these applications and thus to ensure efficient development of e-participation in Prague and also in the Czech Republic in the future.

Facilitating Knowledge Sharing in E-Governance

2012 ◽  
pp. 149-172
Author(s):  
Jarkko Bamberg ◽  
Pauliina Lehtonen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Neighborhood Participation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Rational Knowledge ◽  
The City

This chapter introduces a case study that aimed at developing practices of neighborhood participation by utilizing information and communication technologies. A participatory action research project organized a citizen panel in the neighborhood of Tesoma in the city of Tampere, Finland. The panel tried to find meaningful ways for residents to influence the development of their neighborhood. The central aim was to articulate and mediate their local knowledge to administration that traditionally leans on technical-rational knowledge. The case study suggests that interactive online spatial displays have potential to facilitate meaningful exchange of information by three mechanisms of translation: 1) by giving access to information from viewpoints familiar to the residents, 2) aiding the translation of technical-rational information of public administration for citizens with illustrative visualizations, and 3) giving residents multimodal means of producing input to administrators and planners. Interactive online spatial displays, such as interactive maps and simulations, are considered to work particularly well as translating devices supporting these mechanisms.

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