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    Digital Tools for Capturing User’s Needs on Urban Open Spaces: Drawing Lessons from Cyberparks Project

    The chapter discusses how ICT can be used to enhance the understanding of the relationship between space, users and social practices. As an example of possible use of ICT for capturing and better understanding...

    Carlos Smaniotto Costa in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the … (2017)

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    Erratum to: Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City

    Chiara Certomà, Mark Dyer, Lorena Pocatilu in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the … (2017)

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    Framework for Collaborative Urbanism

    In a stable society we tend to take infrastructure for granted. It is only when we experience extreme natural events or economic melt-down or when conflict extends into violence that society begins to apprecia...

    Mark Dyer, Dick Gleeson, Thomas Grey in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the … (2017)

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    Crowdsourcing Processes for Citizen-Driven Governance

    The chapter explores the current evolution of smart city paradigm characterized by worldwide-raising, spontaneous and bottom-up socio-technological networks that produce non-planned forms of citizen empowermen...

    Chiara Certomà, Francesco Rizzi in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City (2017)

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    Collaborative Planning Through Visualization: Learning from Urban Living Labs

    During recent years, the fast development of Information Technologies (IT) has introduced new opportunities for a sustainable growth of cities. This integration of IT in urban areas has generated the concept o...

    Giulia Melis in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City (2017)

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    Time Quality—Measure for Quality of Place

    The chapter discusses time quality assessment (TQA), a time-people-place oriented approach for evaluation the quality of living environments. The challenge is to shift understanding of city analysis and valuat...

    Damjan Marušić, Barbara Goličnik Marušić in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the … (2017)

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    Digi-Tel—Bespoke Technology for Connected City of Tel-Aviv

    The chapter describes bespoke technology developed by the Tel Aviv Municipality, Israel called Digi-Tel. It aims to engage, involve and connect city residents directly to municipal departments, and enable them...

    Zvi Weinstein in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City (2017)

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    Facts and Prospects of Open Government Data Use. A Case Study in Romania

    This chapter examines the necessity and the benefits of implementation of Open Government Data in Romania. It provides an exploratory research based on a documentary study regarding the benefits of open govern...

    Lorena Pocatilu Bătăgan in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the … (2017)

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    Manifesto for Collaborative Urbanism

    This chapter will consider some key factors affecting cities at the global scale, before addressing the forces at play in the contemporary ‘given-city’ This will provide a platform to review the emergence of t...

    Dick Gleeson, Mark Dyer in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City (2017)

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    Using Big and Small Urban Data for Collaborative Urbanism

    The purpose of this chapter is to explore Big and Small Data available in cities, and to investigate how this data relates to different urban infrastructures and spatial scales. Whether dealing with Big Data o...

    Thomas Grey, Mark Dyer, Dick Gleeson in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the … (2017)

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    Integral Approach to Urban Design in a Data-Rich City Context

    This chapter deals with spatial transformation of urban space in context of data-rich urban environments and networked society, focusing on human activities, experiences and behaviours. It starts from definiti...

    Anita Milakovic, Nevena Novakovic in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the … (2017)

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    A Social Work Perspective on Socio-technological Innovations in Urban Planning and Development

    In the field of sustainable urban development ModularCity as a socio-technological innovation, which combines methods and approaches from computer-assisted planning, geography and social work. It allows plann...

    Tanja Klöti, Matthias Drilling, Carlo Fabian in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the … (2017)

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    Designing a Social Urban Networks to Promote Smart Participation in Matera (Italy)

    A Smart and Liveable City is a place in which innovative technologies and ICT-based solutions ideally coexist with active citizen participation in order to tackle effectively major challenges in urban developm...

    Filomena Pietrapertosa, Roberta Chiarini in Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the … (2017)