Overview
- Offers an innovative perspective on the use of data to promote people-friendly and livable cities
- Analyzes trends in data-rich city governance
- Presents revealing and inspiring case studies
- Contributes to the current debate over the smart city paradigm
- Pursues an interdisciplinary approach to the subject
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering (SPRTRCIENG)
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This book analyzes the ongoing transformation in the “smart city” paradigm and explores the possibilities that technological innovations offer for the effective involvement of ordinary citizens in collective knowledge production and decision-making processes within the context of urban planning and management. To so, it pursues an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions from a range of experts including city managers, public policy makers, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialists, and researchers. The first two parts of the book focus on the generation and use of data by citizens, with or without institutional support, and the professional management of data in city governance, highlighting the social connectivity and livability aspects essential to vibrant and healthy urban environments. In turn, the third part presents inspiring case studies that illustrate how data-driven solutions can empower people and improve urban environments, including enhanced sustainability. The book will appeal to all those who are interested in the required transformation in the planning, management, and operations of data-rich cities and the ways in which such cities can employ the latest technologies to use data efficiently, promoting data access, data sharing, and interoperability.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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The Emergence of Collaborative Urbanism
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Concepts and Perspective on Citizen-Centric Urban Governance
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Tools and Case Studies Promoting Citizens’ Perspective on Urban Futures
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City
Editors: Chiara Certomà, Mark Dyer, Lorena Pocatilu, Francesco Rizzi
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47904-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47903-3Published: 13 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83853-3Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47904-0Published: 07 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2366-259X
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2603
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Computational Intelligence, International Political Economy, Communications Engineering, Networks