scholarly journals Spatial Transformations in Istanbul CBD

2011 ◽  
pp. 263-284
Author(s):  
Feral Geçer ◽  
Adile Arslan Avar ◽  
Koray Velibeyoglu ◽  
Ömür Saygin
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Space Transformation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Contrast Information ◽  
Business District

Now with the intensive use of information and communication technologies, many cities around the world are competing to become a global city. Istanbul is enumerated within the first 50 cities in the globalization process, other than the triad of New York, London, and Tokyo. This chapter explores urban space transformation of Maslak, the contemporary central business district of Istanbul, with respect to information and communication technologies, by using deconcentration and economic restructuring approaches of urban theory. Compared to other global cities, Istanbul has distinctive characteristics, since it has been passing through a unique transformation process. More specifically, its economic, political, and social characteristics distinguish Istanbul from other cities within the same category (Gamma) of world cities. This study has revealed that transformations in Istanbul were not primarily driven by information and communication technologies. In contrast information and communication technology’s role in the transformation of the Istanbul central business district is only a contributing factor.

scholarly journals Access to ICT in Poland and the Co-Creation of Urban Space in the Process of Modern Social Participation in a Smart City—A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 2136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrycja Szarek-Iwaniuk ◽  
Adam Senetra
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Information And Communication

A smart city is one of the latest concepts in the development of modern cities. It has evolved from the foregoing smart cities 1.0 and 2.0 to the smart city 3.0, where members of the local community play the main role as not only the recipients of the introduced changes and modern technology, but also as the creators of urban space. One of the goals of a smart city 3.0 is to promote sustainable urban development by improving the quality of life, enhancing social participation, and involving local community members in planning and decision-making processes. This study set out to determine the role and significance of e-participation methods in the smart city concept. The results of questionnaires exploring the importance of e-participation in urban development are presented. The paper also discusses changes in the availability of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Poland. The secondary goal was to present the geo-questionnaire and Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) as modern research tools. Internet tools based on geoinformation systems have considerable potential for mobilizing social participation in spatial planning (Public Participation GIS). The present study postulates the need for modern social participation methods in shaping urban space and promoting the sustainable development of cities. The study highlights the main challenges in the research process. The cooperation between the authorities and the citizens contributes to the development of a civil society, informed decision-making, social involvement in public life, and more effective governance at the local, regional, and national level. Measures that foster cooperation between the authorities and local communities, the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), and growing social awareness and social participation in managing development are the components of a modern smart city and the building blocks of an e-society. The study also revealed positive changes in access to ICT and their contribution to bridging the digital divide in Poland. Higher levels of social awareness regarding participation and e-participation promote the growth of smart cities.

scholarly journals Parkour, The Affective Appropriation of Urban Space, and the Real/Virtual Dialectic

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Kidder
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Real World ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Physical World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Real ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City

Parkour is a new sport based on athletically and artistically overcoming urban obstacles. In this paper, I argue that the real world practices of parkour are dialectically intertwined with the virtual worlds made possible by information and communication technologies. My analysis of parkour underscores how globalized ideas and images available through the Internet and other media can be put into practice within specific locales. Practitioners of parkour, therefore, engage their immediate, physical world at the same time that they draw upon an imagination enabled by their on–screen lives. As such, urban researchers need to consider the ways that virtual worlds can change and enhance how individuals understand and utilize the material spaces of the city.

Urban Informatics in China

2011 ◽  
pp. 379-389
Author(s):  
Dan Shang ◽  
Jean-François Doulet ◽  
Michael Keane
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Bulletin Boards ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter examines the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in urban China, focusing mainly on their impact on social life. The key question raised by this study is how the Internet and mobile technologies are affecting the way people make use of urban space. The chapter begins with some background to China’s emergence as a connected nation. It then looks at common use of web-based and mobile phone technologies, particularly bulletin boards, SMS and instant messaging. The chapter then presents findings of recent research that illustrates communitarian relationships that are enabled by mobility and the use of technologies. Finally, these findings are contextualized in the idea of the City 2.0 in China.

scholarly journals The emergent city. Interactive relational systems between public administration and citizen to foster sustainable processes of urban development

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Valentina Volpi ◽  
Mauro Palatucci ◽  
Giuseppe Marinelli de Marco
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City

The widespread of Information and Communication Technologies and the consequently redefinition of roles in the usage and management of the city brought along new systems of relationships and interactions that produce an auto-organisation of territories or communities, showed also through temporary transformation of the environment. In effect, cities are continuously redefined by emergent properties that may, both be originated and then impact on social, political, cultural, and economical people practices. On the other hand, through the arrangement of its patterns the city shapes the social and connective relations occurring among people. So, the city can be regarded as a complex system, that in the last years has been expanded by the widespread of communication devices and sensors connected to the Internet. In this context, the design of new patterns of interactions that focuses on the new relationship opportunities, in part offered by the Information and Communication Technologies, but not limited to them, may significantly affect sustainable processes of urban development. This paper focuses on the civic aspect of the so-called smart cities, and, in details, on the relation between citizens and Public Administration. Some existing interaction patterns are illustrated in order to support the visualisation of the dynamic relationships between citizens and Public Administration, while new possible relations derived by the interaction with the urban space are supposed.

(Re)thinking Urban Planning

2011 ◽  
pp. 114-131
Author(s):  
Rodrigo J. Firmino
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patterns Of Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication

Planners and planning departments are increasingly losing their importance within contemporary public administration, as exaggerated reliance on technical and design practices continue to fragment the public treatment of space. Koolhaas and Mau (1995) argue that planners and, in fact, urbanism are outdated, and that both failed to keep pace with the rapid modernization of urban space. Many studies show that ‘proactive’ planning initiatives related to information and communication technologies tend to appeal to the ill-grounded utopianism of technological deterministic approaches. This chapter aims to explain what has been changing in the world of spatial and urban studies as a response to new patterns of communication supported by information and communication technologies, as well as to shed some light on the challenges posed to planning and governance. This will be done together with the observation of real case scenarios in medium and well-developed cities in Brazil.

Towards ubiquitous city

2008 ◽  
pp. 148-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang Ho Lee ◽  
Jung Hoon Han ◽  
Yoon Taik Leem ◽  
Tan Yigitcanlar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Republic

The rapid development of information and communication technologies had a significant effect on contemporary urban and regional planning. Ever since Mitchell (1999) envisaged a vision of ‘E-topia’, a development of robust delivery system for the digital network into knowledge-based urban development has been rigorously challenged. Information and communication technologies are evolving cities from virtual city, which reproduces urban elements inside the virtual computer world, to ubiquitous city, where the ubiquitous computing amongst urban elements such as people, buildings, infrastructure and urban space is available. Nevertheless a strategic ubiquitous city planning is yet to be addressed in an integrated manner by planners and regional analysts because the technologies and applications still need to be fully developed. The Republic of Korea has recently had some experience in developing the ubiquitous city concept and planning principals as a means of knowledge-based urban development. This chapter introduces key ubiquitous technologies, and discusses implications of the ubiquitous city concept into planning and design schemes for knowledge-based urban development in the Republic of Korea.

Socio-technological Factors and Changing Urban Spaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 120633122091067
Author(s):  
Aslı Ulubaş Hamurcu ◽  
Fatih Terzi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Technological Factors ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

In the Information Age, it is becoming crucial to understand the socio-technological factors and their possible outcomes so as to fulfill the upcoming spatial needs of the society. Thus, it is aimed to put forward how socio-spatiality is changing along with the developments in new information and communication technologies (nICTs) in the twenty-first century, and how socio-technological factors are affecting urban space in terms of the formation of new urban functions/uses or spaces that will habit/suit/house these dynamics within the city. The outcome of the study shows that there are three phases by which urban (public) space is expected to change according to the impact of socio-technological factors.

scholarly journals Innovation in the ‘New Normal’ Interactions, the Urban Space, and the Low Touch Economy: The Case of Rio de Janeiro in the Context of the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus ◽  
Daniel Kamlot ◽  
Veranise Jacubowski Correia Dubeux
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
New Information ◽  
Depressive Feelings ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City

The aim of this paper is to examine how innovation was implemented in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, regarding the “new normal” interactions, the urban space and the low touch economy. The main argument indicates that the use of new information and communication technologies to interact with others allowed people to develop social and emotional ties in the light of health precautions. Although many of these precautions were ignored by people using the urban space, some people made new uses of the open natural spaces in Rio de Janeiro to release anxiety and depressive feelings, but the city still faces problems regarding the privatization of public spaces. In the light of the development of the low touch economy, innovation was necessary for many companies to overcome obstacles such as broken relationships with customers, the instant drop in demand, the constraints in supply and production, the political instability and the cash-flow/financial constraints. These solutions included the improvement of the logistic process and alternative branding, the switch to a similar but digital/remote service and the creation of products for other needs of the existing clients.

Whatsapp Messenger as a Mobile Media to Learn Writing for EFL Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Linda ◽  
Ida Ri'aeni
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
First Grade ◽  
English Department ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Efl Students

Abstract   The objective of this research is to find out the use of Whatsapp Messenger as a mobile media to learn writing in EFL classes.Several researchers have attempted to prove applicability of mobile learning as modern ways of teaching and learning (Naismith, 2004:115). Moreover, applying portable technologies have been demanded by most of the modern learners who oftentimes are forced to study anywhere, and anytime, for example, at work, in the bus or at weekends (Evans, 2008:115).The research was motivated by the students’ difficulties in writing. The sample of this research was three classes of first grade students of English Department of Unswagati. The instrument of this research was questionnaire sheet. Data from questionnaire sheet was analyzed based on the frequency students’ answers and then was calculated and interpreted into percentages. The result shows WhatsApp Messenger attracts the students interest and also the students have positive responses towards the using ofWhatsAppMessenger. In applying WhatsApp group, the writer concluded that, learning using WhatsApp group has effective to develop their creativity in writing skill. On the other hand, the result from the questionnaire sheet indicated that almost of students is active in learning to writing recount text. Students can learn out of the classroom. Beside WhatsApp can be used privately, it can be used for students’ education. The students can use their gadget positively for their ability in learning English. The students can improve their knowledge in learning ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies). Keyword: WhatsApp Messenger,EFL writing, Instructional Media, ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies).

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