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 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 Dialectical Design Dialogues: Negotiating Ethics in Participatory Planning by Building a Critical Design Atlas

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-251
Author(s):  
Barbara Roosen ◽  
Liesbeth Huybrechts ◽  
Oswald Devisch ◽  
Pieter Van den Broeck
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
The City

This article explores ‘dialectical design dialogues’ as an approach to engage with ethics in everyday urban planning contexts. It starts from Paulo Freire’s pedagogical view (1970/2017), in which dialogues imply the establishment of a horizontal relation between professionals and amateurs, in order to understand, question and imagine things in everyday reality, in this case, urban transformations, applied to participatory planning and enriched through David Harvey’s (2000, 2009) dialectical approach. A dialectical approach to design dialogues acknowledges and renegotiates contrasts and convergences of ethical concerns specific to the reality of concrete daily life, rather than artificially presenting daily life as made of consensus or homogeneity. The article analyses an atlas as a tool to facilitate dialectical design dialogues in a case study of a low-density residential neighbourhood in the city of Genk, Belgium. It sees the production of the atlas as a collective endeavour during which planners, authorities and citizens reflect on possible futures starting from a confrontation of competing uses and perspectives of neighbourhood spaces. The article contributes to the state-of-the-art in participatory urban planning in two ways: (1) by reframing the theoretical discussion on ethics by arguing that not only the verbal discourses around designerly atlas techniques but also the techniques themselves can support urban planners in dealing more consciously with ethics (accountability, morality and authorship) throughout urban planning processes, (2) by offering a concrete practice-based example of producing an atlas that supports the participatory articulation and negotiation of dialectical inquiry of ethics through dialogues in a ‘real-time’ urban planning process.

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 Mobilidade urbana: a participação social como um caminho para o direito à cidade - o caso das mobcidades em Ilhéus-BA / Urban mobility: social participation as a way to the right to the city - the case of mobcities in Ilhéis-BA

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-451
Author(s):  
Catrine Cadja Indio do Brasil da Mata ◽  
Erica Almeida Leal ◽  
Aniram Lins Cavalcante ◽  
Zina Angelica Caceres Benavides
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

ResumoEste trabalho visa demonstrar o processo de redemocratização da cidade, tendo em vista que o Brasil enquanto Estado democrático de Direito, necessita dos instrumentos de participação social, capazes de conferir ao cidadão o sentimento de pertencimento e de apropriação do espaço urbano. Utilizou-se como metodologia a revisão bibliográfica para construção do primeiro e segundo capítulo, enquanto o terceiro capítulo foi construído através do estudo de caso do Projeto MobCidades no Município de Ilhéus-BA. Como resultado, constatou-se que a mobilização dos atores sociais e os mecanismos de democracia participativa ganham relevância no cenário político, mostrando-se imprescindíveis para viabilizar a destinação de recursos públicos para ações e projetos que atendam aos interesses de diversos segmentos sociais e propiciem melhorias significativas no âmbito da acessibilidade e da mobilidade urbana. Apesar da legitimação da participação popular nas questões urbanas, percebe-se que poderes deliberativos ainda permanecem sobre o manto da máquina estatal, enquanto o cidadão encontra-se distante da gestão pública, o que nos faz questionar sobre o funcionamento dos mecanismos de participação social, visando incluir os anseios da população nas decisões referentes a políticas de mobilidade.Palavras-chave: Redemocratização da cidade. Participação social. Inclusão. AbstractThis work aims to demonstrate the process of redemocratization of the city, considering that Brazil as a democratic State of Law, needs the instruments of social participation, capable of giving the citizen the feeling of belonging and appropriation of the urban space. To this end, a case study of the MobCidades Project was carried out in the Municipality of Ilhéus-BA, based on information and data obtained from the Instituto Nossa Ilhéus proponent of the project and a bibliographic review, based on books, periodicals and legislation dealing with on the matter, and case study. As a result, it was found that the mobilization of social actors and the mechanisms of participatory democracy gain relevance in the political scenario, proving to be essential to enable the allocation of public resources for actions and projects that meet the interests of different social segments and provide improvements significant in the scope of accessibility and urban mobility. Despite the legitimacy of popular participation in urban issues, it is clear that deliberative powers still remain under the mantle of the state machine, while the citizen is distant from public management, which makes us question the functioning of the mechanisms of social participation, aiming to include the population's concerns in decisions regarding mobility policies.Keywords: Redemocratization of the city. social participation. Inclusion.

Devaluation, erasure and replacement: Urban frontiers and the reproduction of settler colonial urbanism in Tel Aviv

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-286
Author(s):  
Elya Lucy Milner
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Spatial Processes ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Real Estate Projects ◽  
Private Entrepreneurs ◽  
Colonial Urbanism ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring ◽  
The City

This paper examines the continuity of the Israeli settler colonial project into the contemporary moment – as manifested in the city of Tel Aviv – and its transfiguration into current socio-political and spatial processes in the urban arena. It offers a close reading of a case study from which such continuity emerges, exposing the settler colonial terms of production of Tel Aviv in current entrepreneurial real-estate projects. The case study under analysis is of the Giv’at-Amal neighbourhood, established on the emptied Palestinian village of Jamassin in the war of 1948, now facing eviction by private entrepreneurs constructing a luxurious residential compound. The paper aims to expose the ways in which the urban entrepreneurialism in Giv’at-Amal reproduces the settler colonial logic of devaluation, erasure and replacement of existing inhabitants of the land. It further conceptualises the area as an urban frontier, in which current neoliberal restructuring plays an active role in the ongoing production of the settler colonial urban space. By so doing, it aims to undermine the notion that settler colonial projects of replacing existing people and geographies are completed historical events, and to re-articulate them as ongoing contemporary processes.

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.

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

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Fanta ◽  
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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.

scholarly journals Literacy Hub (L-hub): Studi Strategi Literasi Pemerintah Daerah (Studi Kasus di Kota Baubau)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Herie Saksono
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
City Government ◽  
Cultural Literacy ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Times ◽  
Literacy Implementation ◽  
The City

  Literacy is still a problem in various regions. The times’ development has also changed the spectrum of literacy, so literacy is not just the ability to read, write, and count. The results of the measurement of various international institutions prove how the condition of literacy has deteriorated. How is the management of literacy carried out by the Government, Regional Government and the community? What should literacy stakeholders do in an effort to develop a cultural literacy? This study aims to describe the condition of literacy in the region, encourage the presence of the Government and Regional Governments to initiate extraordinary agenda of literacy implementation, and provide understanding to the public regarding the availability of public participation space to actualize literacy culture. This study used a descriptive qualitative approach to describe literacy in the area with a case study method in Baubau City. The study concluded the importance of rearranging literacy management in an integrated manner - Central and regional by involving stakeholders in literacy. It is recommended that the Baubau City Government initiate the Literacy Hub (L-Hub) which will be an accelerator of the development of cultural literacy by prioritizing the active role and collaboration between community elements. In addition, it is necessary to create a conducive climate that supports ecosystem literacy and literacy as a lifestyle for the sake of the creation of literate generations that will accelerate the realization of the city of literacy. Abstrak Literasi masih menjadi problematika di berbagai daerah. Perkembangan zaman turut merubah spektrum literasi, sehingga literasi tidak sekedar kemampuan membaca, menulis, dan berhitung. Hasil pengukuran berbagai institusi internasional membuktikan betapa terpuruknya kondisi literasi. Bagaimana pengelolaan literasi yang dilakukan Pemerintah, Pemerintah Daerah, dan masyarakat? Apa yang harus dilakukan para pemangku kepentingan literasi dalam upaya mengembangkan budaya literasi? Kajian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan kondisi literasi di daerah, mendorong kehadiran Pemerintah dan Pemerintah Daerah untuk menginisiasi extraordinary agendapenyelenggaraan literasi, dan memberi pemahaman kepada masyarakat terkait ketersediaan ruang partisipasi publik untuk mengaktualisasikan budaya literasi. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif untuk mendeskripsikan literasi di daerah dengan metode studi kasus di Kota Baubau. Kajian menyimpulkan pentingnya menata kembali manajemen literasi secara terintegrasi - Pusat dan daerah dengan melibatkan para pemangku kepentingan literasi. Direkomendasikan agar Pemerintah Kota Baubau menginisiasi Literacy Hub(L-Hub) yang akan menjadi akselerator pengembangan budaya literasi dengan mengedepankan peran aktif dan kolaborasi antarelemen masyarakat. Selain itu, diperlukan penciptaan iklim kondusif yang mendukung ekosistem literasi dan pembiasaan berliterasi sebagai gaya hidup demi terciptanya generasi literat yang akan memercepat terwujudnya kota literasi.

scholarly journals Investigating Decision Mechanisms of Statutory Stakeholders in Flood Risk Strategy Formation: A Computational Experiments Approach

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 2716
Author(s):  
Ifigeneia Koutiva ◽  
Archontia Lykou ◽  
Chris Pantazis ◽  
Christos Makropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Strategy Formation ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Decision Mechanisms ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The City

Cities at risk of extreme hydro-meteorological events need to be prepared to decrease the extent of the impacts. However, sometimes, authorities only react to catastrophes failing to proactively prepare against extremes. This can be a result of both absent structural protection measures and problematic governance. While for the first, models exist that can simulate the effect, the effect of the latter is difficult to quantify. This work aims to explore the effects that typical authorities’ behaviour has on the decisions for preparing and protecting a city against floods. This behaviour includes how the different authorities decide, for example, on whether or not to cooperate with each other, build something, assign funding to something, etc. These decisions affect directly the preparedness against and the protection from flood events. For that matter, the institutional analysis framework was used to conceptualise the decision-making processes of authorities responsible for flood risk management. Based on this, an agent-based modelling tool has been created, enabling the exploration of the system’s behaviour under different scenarios. The tool is used as a case study of the responsible authorities for flood protection in the city of Rethymno on the island of Crete, Greece. The tool has a user-friendly interface enabling the end-users to explore the drivers of decision-making processes under different conditions.

scholarly journals Management of Urban Farming Activities In A Community Case Study 1000kebun In Bandung City

2021 ◽  
Vol 249 ◽  
pp. 01010
Author(s):  
Ahkmad Zainal Mubarak ◽  
Oekan S Abdoellah ◽  
Susanti Withaningsih ◽  
Kinanti Indah
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Urban Farming ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
The City

Urban farming is a solution to the food crisis and deterioration of the environment urban conditions. In the city of Bandung, there are communities that carry out urban farming activities that are packaged attractively. The strategy carried out by the community in the practice of urban farming is a tool capable of driving from a downturn in urban areas. The study discusses urban farming as community management in 1000kebun to share knowledge and experience. Logical framework analysis carried out by the community of 1000kebun in the city of Bandung in forming a strategy developed so as to encourage the urban farming activities to remain sustainable. The strategies related to creativity in the agricultural sector and the involvement of young people in the agricultural sector. The 1000kebun community developed the creativity from the involvement of young people in carrying out agricultural activities which were able to encourage the wider community to care about the agricultural sector and consumption of foodstuffs that did not damage the environment and health. The motivation of 1000kebun to be active in the management of urban farming is to raise an active role for public concern in the agricultural sector, especially those in urban areas.

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