Urban Planning 2.0

Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning, pp. 1-32, edited by Carlos Nunes Silva, 2015

This chapter discusses the ability of new technologies to support collective intelligence. The technology trend brought into the spotlight is Web 2.0 because it has a great potential to contribute to the refined understanding of planning issues. Such an application field can be called Collective Intelligence 2.0 with crowdsourcing as its characteristic process. This chapter discusses how such an intelligence and crowd-sourced knowledge can be utilized in smartening up urban planning. Crowdsourcing has been experimented in urban planning since the late 2000s, most notably in the forms of wikiplanning, participatory sensing, and co-creation. By combining theoretical insights and empirical evidence this chapter concludes that Web 2.0 tools can be used to increase various forms of social and collective intelligence and, especially when the precondition of citizen-centered open planning culture is met, have undeniable potential to smarten up urban planning.

2021

This article discusses platformization and its impact on urban planning. Platformization refers to an increased utilization of platform logic in society. In urban planning, it is manifest in the emergence of digital co-production platforms. They offer a range of genuinely beneficial features-especially digitally-assisted collaborative mapping, ideation, sharing, and analytics-and facilitated integration of citizen input into democratic planning system. As such, they have a potential to develop into a new urban planning model that meets the needs of a complex late modern society.

Conference Proceedings CUPUM 2019 - 16th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Wuhan, China, 2019

The paper presents a comparison between aims, theories and practices in city planning and in the use of web-based technologies in urban activities to highlight the different instances of the two macro-domains in conceptualizing city dynamics and elaborating solutions to address urban challenges. The analysis had been structured by considering the three key dimensions constituting the pillars of Urban Informatics: people, city and technology. The analysis had been developed focusing first on the misalignments between current web-based technologies and city planning, then moving to the identification of their convergences. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines three future directions to rethink the integration and future design of web-based technologies in city planning actions as planning support systems to manage the production and use of city data, the orchestration of local activities , and the integration of city plans with distributed urban initiatives.

International Journal of E-Planning Research, 2017

This paper explores an innovative approach to open policymaking and citizen-responsive urban planning. It reports on project MiraMap carried out by the Politecnico di Torino (the Polytechnic University of Turin). The project engages both citizens and the Public Administration in a reporting process concerning critical issues, as well as positive trends and resources within the Mirafiori Sud administrative area of Turin (Italy), through the use of a digital collaborative platform. The experiment was a real case study geared at evaluating the use of open source technologies to foster e-participation in urban planning. MiraMap has been set up with an eye to achieving integration within the current administrative management process and to involving new actors in the decision-making process through a “collective governance” approach. Therefore, this paper seeks to set up a methodological (and technological) framework, which is seen as crucial for addressing the complexity and dynamics of...

Planning Theory & Practice, 2020

Technologies for Development

Journal of Location Based Services, 2009

/Short abstract Hello City! researches the patterns of communication on urban issues among the digitally active citizens of two very different European cities: Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Belgrade (Serbia). The results of the quick-scan give some insights about how to use the energy of the connected citizens to create more liveable and equal cities.

Congress Proceedings. 49th ISOCARP-International Society of City and Regional Planners World Congress: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of planning practice, Brisbane, Australia, 2013

The widespread adoption of the Internet dramatically altered whole segments of our society. Considering the increasing demand for participation in planning practice and new communication possibilities offered by the Web 2.0 and social media, this paper asks how these two add up. How can planners make use of social web?

2019