Overview
- Gives a comprehensive account of the topic of smart cities
- Uses a human-driven approach to urban transformation
- Reflects on the relation between planning and design as a strategy to link urban processes
- Useful for public administration employees, urban planners and designers in addressing recent challenges of sustainability, public policies, business models in their relation with urban design
- Provides a collection of theoretical contributions and case studies from Europe
- Explores perception of public administration as catalyst of innovation and opportunities
- Presents a vision of the urban environment as a living lab ecosystem
- Introduces conception of urban innovation as a continuous open process between top-down and bottom up initiatives
Part of the book series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives (URBANLAND)
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About this book
Urban transformation is widely recognized as a complex phenomenon, rich in uncertainty. It is the unpredictable consequence of complex interplay between urban forces (both top-down or bottom-up), urban resources (spatial, social, economic and infrastructural as well as political or cognitive) and transformation opportunities (endogenous or exogenous).
The recent attention to Urban Living Lab and Smart City initiatives is disclosinga promising bridge between the micro-scale environments, with the dynamics of such forces
and resources, and the urban governance mechanisms. This bridge is represented by those urban collaborative environments, where processes of smart service co-design take place throughdialogic interaction with and among citizens within a situated and cultural-specific frame.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Needs for New Durable Visions
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Complex Participatory Design Processes
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Innovating Governance and Economic Models
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Experiences
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Francesca Rizzo was a researcher at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano and is currently a researcher at University of Bologna. She has a PhD in Telematics and Information from the University of Siena. She taught Human Computer Interaction and Interaction Design at University of Siena and at Politecnico di Milano. Fields of interest: User Centred Design (UCD), user studies and usability of interactive products. She is author of many articles and worked in different European Research Projects and coordinated, for The Design department of the Politecnico di Milano, Peripheria and Life 2.0 projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Smart Cities
Book Subtitle: Rethinking the Interplay between Design and Planning
Editors: Grazia Concilio, Francesca Rizzo
Series Title: Urban and Landscape Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33024-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33022-8Published: 27 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81425-4Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33024-2Published: 13 July 2016
Series ISSN: 1877-7139
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1200
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 255
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urbanism, Sustainable Development