On the perpetuation and contestation of racial stigma: Urban Roma in a disadvantaged neighbourhood of Szeged

As described by the strong academic literature, (Vattimo, Bauman, Mumford, Simon, Haraway, Meschiari, Florida) the contemporary society is going through new challenges, such as the friction between youth, technology, and productivity. These challenges affect the way people live and experience the cities, but also the way cities need to evolve. An anthological analysis and a study of secondary sources is used to analyze the new spatial and social experiences, while the analysis of Milan (Italy) as a case study of a creative city is used to understand the rapid shift towards the virtualization of cities, in which consumption is progressively induced by a projected image of the city rather than its actual physical fabric. This manuscript opens a research front, with the goal to understand how architecture and urban design should leave the traditional typologies to propose a new way of creating and living architecture, caught in the middle between the real and the virtual.

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Infrastructuring the Circular Economy

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13071805 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. 1805 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

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.

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How to Deliver Smart Heritage within Local Government: Defining Smart Heritage and Smart Heritage Principles

10.26686/wgtn.16915693.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

David Batchelor

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Case Studies ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Smart City ◽

Local Governments ◽

City Council ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Heritage Discourse ◽

The City

Local governments are innovatively applying smart city technology to resolve challenges in their jurisdictions. These challenges commonly relate to environmental sustainability, infrastructure, and transportation, and result in novel discourses within local government strategies and operations, such as Smart Environment, Smart Infrastructure, and Smart Mobility. Driven by the success of these discourses, local governments seek further solutions through converging the smart city technology with other disciplines. The next likely convergence is with the heritage discipline, subsequently producing the Smart Heritage discourse. Academic literature records that Smart Heritage is an emergent yet unformed discourse that is on the verge of application within local government. Smart Heritage presents opportunities to converge historical narratives with the automated and autonomous capabilities of smart technology. However, due to its novelty, the local government sector has no guidance on delivering Smart Heritage within strategies and operations. Therefore, this thesis comprehensively explores and defines the Smart Heritage discourse and addresses Smart Heritage's delivery within local government strategies and operations. The original contributions to knowledge in this thesis are the first thorough definition of Smart Heritage in academic literature and the production of Smart Heritage Principles, which direct the delivery of Smart Heritage within local government. This thesis firstly defines Smart Heritage through an investigation into the nascent patchwork of academic literature at the intersection of the smart city and heritage disciplines. This definition establishes the discursive framework for the subsequent inquiry into how to deliver Smart Heritage in local government organisations. In this inquiry, the researcher conducts three case studies on local governments in Australia: Broken Hill City Council, the City of Melbourne, and the City of Newcastle. In each case study, the researcher analyses strategic smart city and heritage documents and then interviews their smart city and heritage advisors regarding strategic and operational convergences between the disciplines. The researcher then synthesises the resulting data into cross-case key considerations that contextualise a base understanding of how local governments deliver Smart Heritage. Using this understanding, the researcher conducts a second round of interviews and synthesis that, in turn, produces the refined Smart Heritage Principles. The researcher validates the principles’ relevancy and applicability through an additional case study with Wellington City Council in New Zealand. The research finds that Smart Heritage in the academic literature is nascent yet organically forming around a shared discourse between the smart city and heritage disciplines. As a result, there are numerous understandings of Smart Heritage. Nevertheless, these understandings agree that Smart Heritage convergences historical contextual narratives with automatic and autonomous technologies and advances from the passive Digital Heritage discourse. The case studies find that there is a foundation for Smart Heritage within local government through strategic documents that share similar focuses and advisors who seek multi-disciplinary convergences. However, the disciplines’ overlapping is not explicitly recognised in strategic documents and operational models, leading to inadequate financial and staff resourcing of Smart Heritage and inefficient cross-disciplinary initiatives in local government. The research identifies four thematic key considerations that address delivering Smart Heritage within local government; recognition, delivery, resourcing, and innovation; and proposes four Smart Heritage Principles for local governments to follow in order to deliver the discourse. The researcher presents the principles in an industry-ready document at the end of the thesis. The implications of this research are the increased visibility of Smart Heritage as an academic discourse and support for the delivery of Smart Heritage within local government strategies and operations. Smart Heritage becomes more visible as this research solidifies then illuminates a discursive pathway that researchers can engage with. Importantly, this research presents evidence that Smart Heritage is extant within academic literature and local governments, supporting its position as a constructive academic and practical discourse. The Smart Heritage Principles support the delivery of Smart Heritage within local government strategies and operations through the applied guidance they offer the organisations. As the industry-ready document is the first publication with this focus, the influence on the delivery of Smart Heritage is significant. The researcher aspires to share the Smart Heritage Principles document beyond this research context through its distribution to other councils globally.

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THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE IN PRESERVING THE IDENTITY OF A CITY: CASE STUDY SMEDEREVO

САВРЕМЕНА ТЕОРИЈА И ПРАКСА У ГРАДИТЕЉСТВУ ◽

10.7251/stp1813300a ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Aleksandra Đukić

Keyword(s):

Collective Identity ◽

Cultural Landscape ◽

Danube River ◽

Cultural Meanings ◽

River Bank ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Industrial Heritage ◽

The City

Cultural heritage is recognized as an irreplaceable and non-renewable strategic resource for the sustainable development of the city. It could serve as important trigger for strengthening identity and competitiveness of the city at the regional and global level. Industrial heritage is seen as a cultural landscape that stems from the interaction of social groups and the space they belong and in relation to which they build collective identity and cultural meanings, through a layered and complex relationship. Social values of industrial heritage are an important part of citizens' identity, because they represent a part of the memory of people's lives, about industrial progress and pride of the local citizens. The case study is conducted in Smederevo, at the area of industrial heritage along the Danube river bank. Identification of the value and significance of the Indistrial heritage will be investigated by a survey of citizens. The survey is based on the five Lynch`s elements of the image of the city, as well as the identification of the emotional connection of citizens with the city, the understanding of its symbols and meanings.

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EL STORYTELLING EN LA MARCA DE DESTINOS TURÍSTICOS: EL CASO DE GIRONA

Cuadernos de Turismo ◽

10.6018/turismo.451841 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 269-289

Author(s):

Raquel Camprubí ◽

Cèlia Planas

Keyword(s):

Tourism Destination ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Study Results ◽

Tourism Destinations ◽

The City ◽

Traditional Stories

El storytelling como estrategia para transmitir los valores e identidad de una marca ha adquirido importancia en los últimos años, pero aún hay poca literatura que desarrolle este concepto entorno a los destinos turísticos. Este artículo pretende analizar las potencialidades y uso del storytelling en un destino turístico a través de relatos y leyendas tradicionales. Las leyendas de la ciudad de Girona (España) se utilizaron como caso de estudio. Los resultados ponen en evidencia que, a pesar del potencial de las leyendas, actualmente no se está explotando adecuadamente. Storytelling as strategy to transmit values and identity of a brand has acquired relevance during the last years. However, this concept is already relatively underdeveloped in academic literature on tourism destinations. This paper aims to analyze storytelling potentialities and use in a tourism destination trough traditional stories. Legends of the city of Girona (Spain) have been chosen as a case study. Results demonstrated that legends of the city have the potential to develop a storytelling strategy, but this potential is not used properly.

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Facilitating Knowledge Sharing in E-Governance

E-Governance and Civic Engagement ◽

10.4018/978-1-61350-083-5.ch008 ◽

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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Analysis of additional hotel services in the international luxury hotels – a case-study from Budapest

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence ◽

10.1515/picbe-2017-0094 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 884-892 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Katalin Juhász-Dóra

Keyword(s):

Hotel Industry ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Luxury Hotels ◽

Local Resources ◽

Local Embeddedness ◽

Model Finding ◽

Hotel Chains ◽

The City ◽

Community Space

Abstract The investigation of additional services from the aspect of local embeddedness is a novelty in the academic literature related to the tourism and hotel industry. The primary function of hotels is to provide accommodation and other services for the hotel-guests. Secondarily, they may also offer complementary-services and a community space for the city-residents and for non-hotel guests. Due to the globalization, the change in the consumer behaviour and global firms, the question of location and local resources are becoming more and more significant especially in the case of international hotel chains. The international hotel company is a member of a hotel market at a specific location, and it is surrounded by a sociological environment, local people, culture and traditions which have an impact on the competitiveness of the hotel. The author explains the results with the application of the multidimensional scaling model, finding answers for the questions in which ways the local embeddedness can have an effect on the competitiveness of a hotel based on a case-study carried out in a five-star hotel (member of an international chain) of Budapest in 2016.

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The City, the Suburb, the Community and the Local Press: A Gold Coast Case Study

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x0210500115 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 105 (1) ◽

pp. 105-118 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Grahame Griffin

Keyword(s):

Gold Coast ◽

Community Cohesion ◽

Roles And Responsibilities ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Local Meaning ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

Local and suburban newspapers have not generally received a ‘good press’, at least in the relevant academic literature. This article argues that it is time to reconsider the roles and responsibilities of these newspapers in the light of discussions surrounding the nature of community and of community cohesion and conservatism, as well as the relationship of the local to the global. A case study of two Gold Coast newspapers — a suburban and a daily — concludes that, while the suburban paper relies on traditional hard news journalism with little overt recognition of community, the daily pursues a ‘sometimes obsessive’ search for local meaning, image and identity.

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Estrategia para el empoderamiento diferencial desde la identidad cultural y el desarrollo local. Estudio de caso de las Mujeres Indígenas Nasa del Municipio Santiago de Cali - Colombia / Strategy for differential empowerment from cultural identity and local development. Case study of Indigenous Women Nasa of the Municipality Santiago de Cali - Colombia

Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales ◽

10.37467/gka-revsocial.v7.1645 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 59-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Johana Ciro ◽

Antonio Martínez Puche

Keyword(s):

Cultural Identity ◽

Local Development ◽

Indigenous Women ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Difficult Situation ◽

Identidad Cultural ◽

Las Mujeres ◽

The City ◽

Estudio De Caso

ABSTRACT This article thesis seeks to deepen in the instruments necessary to that must accompany the processes of empowerment of the indigenous women Nasa women in of the Municipality of Santiago de Cali, Colombia, in the context of the city, leading with a view to strengthen the enhancement of their capacities, so they can use them to contribute to their Community‘s development that allow them to influence the development of Community as well as to address and counteract the difficult situation of vulnerability that they have lived historically. In that sense, and taking into account the specificity of the problems raised, the methodology of the Participatory Action Research (IAP) and the case study.RESUMENEl presente artículo profundiza en los instrumentos que deben acompañar los procesos de empoderamiento de la mujer indígena Nasa del Municipio de Santiago de Cali, Colombia en contexto de ciudad, incidiendo en la potenciación de sus capacidades para el desarrollo de su comunidad y contrarrestar la difícil situación de vulnerabilidad que han vivido históricamente.En ese sentido, y atendiendo a la especificidad de la problemática planteada, se emplea la metodología de la Investigación Acción Participativa (IAP) y el estudio de caso. Se toma como base conceptual el pensamiento descolonial y la justicia epistémica, planteando el paradigma de investigación indígena como filtro analítico para visibilizar la cosmovisión Nasa y para poner en valor el aporte que hace la mujer indígena Nasa a la preservación de la identidad cultural de su pueblo.

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How to Deliver Smart Heritage within Local Government: Defining Smart Heritage and Smart Heritage Principles

10.26686/wgtn.16915693 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

David Batchelor

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Case Studies ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Smart City ◽

Local Governments ◽

City Council ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Heritage Discourse ◽

The City

Local governments are innovatively applying smart city technology to resolve challenges in their jurisdictions. These challenges commonly relate to environmental sustainability, infrastructure, and transportation, and result in novel discourses within local government strategies and operations, such as Smart Environment, Smart Infrastructure, and Smart Mobility. Driven by the success of these discourses, local governments seek further solutions through converging the smart city technology with other disciplines. The next likely convergence is with the heritage discipline, subsequently producing the Smart Heritage discourse. Academic literature records that Smart Heritage is an emergent yet unformed discourse that is on the verge of application within local government. Smart Heritage presents opportunities to converge historical narratives with the automated and autonomous capabilities of smart technology. However, due to its novelty, the local government sector has no guidance on delivering Smart Heritage within strategies and operations. Therefore, this thesis comprehensively explores and defines the Smart Heritage discourse and addresses Smart Heritage's delivery within local government strategies and operations. The original contributions to knowledge in this thesis are the first thorough definition of Smart Heritage in academic literature and the production of Smart Heritage Principles, which direct the delivery of Smart Heritage within local government. This thesis firstly defines Smart Heritage through an investigation into the nascent patchwork of academic literature at the intersection of the smart city and heritage disciplines. This definition establishes the discursive framework for the subsequent inquiry into how to deliver Smart Heritage in local government organisations. In this inquiry, the researcher conducts three case studies on local governments in Australia: Broken Hill City Council, the City of Melbourne, and the City of Newcastle. In each case study, the researcher analyses strategic smart city and heritage documents and then interviews their smart city and heritage advisors regarding strategic and operational convergences between the disciplines. The researcher then synthesises the resulting data into cross-case key considerations that contextualise a base understanding of how local governments deliver Smart Heritage. Using this understanding, the researcher conducts a second round of interviews and synthesis that, in turn, produces the refined Smart Heritage Principles. The researcher validates the principles’ relevancy and applicability through an additional case study with Wellington City Council in New Zealand. The research finds that Smart Heritage in the academic literature is nascent yet organically forming around a shared discourse between the smart city and heritage disciplines. As a result, there are numerous understandings of Smart Heritage. Nevertheless, these understandings agree that Smart Heritage convergences historical contextual narratives with automatic and autonomous technologies and advances from the passive Digital Heritage discourse. The case studies find that there is a foundation for Smart Heritage within local government through strategic documents that share similar focuses and advisors who seek multi-disciplinary convergences. However, the disciplines’ overlapping is not explicitly recognised in strategic documents and operational models, leading to inadequate financial and staff resourcing of Smart Heritage and inefficient cross-disciplinary initiatives in local government. The research identifies four thematic key considerations that address delivering Smart Heritage within local government; recognition, delivery, resourcing, and innovation; and proposes four Smart Heritage Principles for local governments to follow in order to deliver the discourse. The researcher presents the principles in an industry-ready document at the end of the thesis. The implications of this research are the increased visibility of Smart Heritage as an academic discourse and support for the delivery of Smart Heritage within local government strategies and operations. Smart Heritage becomes more visible as this research solidifies then illuminates a discursive pathway that researchers can engage with. Importantly, this research presents evidence that Smart Heritage is extant within academic literature and local governments, supporting its position as a constructive academic and practical discourse. The Smart Heritage Principles support the delivery of Smart Heritage within local government strategies and operations through the applied guidance they offer the organisations. As the industry-ready document is the first publication with this focus, the influence on the delivery of Smart Heritage is significant. The researcher aspires to share the Smart Heritage Principles document beyond this research context through its distribution to other councils globally.

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