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The paper analyses the varieties of smart urbanism to be found in the contemporary urban landscape in the UK. In so doing, it builds on and extends two currently dominant sets of critiques of the smart city: those that call into question... more
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      Urban PlanningUrban Political EconomyCultural EconomyFuture cities
The policy pointers presented in this report are the result of a three-year (2015-18) research project led by Federico Caprotti at the University of Exeter. The project, Smart Eco-Cities for a Green Economy: A Comparative Analysis of... more
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      ResilienceSustainable DevelopmentUrban PlanningChina
Abstract Platform urbanism has emerged in recent years as an area of research into the ways in which digital platforms are increasingly central to the governance, economy, experience, and understanding of the city. In the paper, we argue... more
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      Urban GeographyUrban StudiesSmart CityUrban Futures
The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both... more
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      Tourism StudiesGlobalizationUrbanization in Developing AreasDisaster risk management
Gelecek fikri, entelektüel tarih bağlamında siyaset ve felsefe alanının her dönem gündeminde olagelmiştir. Daha iyi bir geleceğe olan sürekli özlem, bu bağlamda toplumsal mücadelelerin de temel motivasyonu olmuştur. Şehircilik bağlamında... more
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      Utopian StudiesUrban PlanningUrban StudiesUrban Design
2011 - 2014 urban futures research program
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The writing which this volume brings together is as multifaceted as are its objects of investigation. Ranging from theoretical or design-based perspectives to historical and politically charged foci, the chapters reflect an amalgam... more
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      ArchitectureUrban PoliticsUrban HistoryGlobal cities
This is a working paper from the exploratory phase of Visions and Pathways 2040 project. The paper presents a scan of futures inquiry trends, an outline of recent advances in relevant theory, and critically reviews similar... more
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      Urban PlanningFutures StudiesScenario planningVisioning
Drawing on examples from various cities, the chapter traces the convergence between eco-urbanism and smart urbanism in the past two decades. The chapter begins by tracing the eco-city and smart city's conceptual trajectories, before... more
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      Sustainable DevelopmentDigital citiesSustainable CitiesSmart Cities
This first deliverable for WP4: Infrastructure and services for sustainable urbanization: trends and policy support mechanisms, has allowed us to review the state of the art for the WP core themes, drawing on a combination of scholarly... more
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      European StudiesSustainable DevelopmentUrban PlanningSustainable Urbanism
Pre-print proof version, from edited collection: Defining the Urban: Interdisciplinary and Professional Perspectives. Ed. Deljana Iossifova, Christopher N.H Doll, Alexandros Gasparatos (London and New York: Routledge, 2017). The... more
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      Future StudiesArtificial IntelligencePhilosophy of SciencePosthumanism
According to Richard Florida, the world is in the grip of a 'New Urban Crisis'. In his most recent book Florida recounts a visit to Medellín that provoked an epiphany in which he realized that the New Urban Crisis is global in scope.... more
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      Development StudiesUrban PlanningUrban StudiesUrbanism
Exhibition catalog for "Dread & Desire: Urban Futures at the Scale of the Human Body," Oct–Dec, 2017, Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati. In conjunction with IASDR 2017, the biannual conference of the International Association for... more
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      Design educationDesign pedagogyCritical DesignUrban Futures
Platform urbanism has emerged in recent years as an area of research into the ways in which digital platforms are increasingly central to the governance, economy, experience, and understanding of the city. In the paper, we argue that... more
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      Urban GeographyTypologyCorporate GovernanceUrban Studies
This rapid review identified five common themes for policy makers to consider to support low carbon residential retrofits/renovations: * Tailor policy to decision-makers dispositions and perspectives. * Funding or subsidies should target... more
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      Low Carbone CitiesUrban PolicyLow Carbon EconomyUrban Policies
What does it mean for artists within academia to make art, teach and learn with and in community, in particular the challenged and challenging Montreal neighborhood of Pointe-St-Charles? This article addresses community engagement in "... more
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      Oral historyComics and Graphic NovelsPlace-Based EducationInterdisciplinary Teaching and Learning
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      Urban PlanningUrban DevelopmentUrban Futures
Competing historical trajectories of radical urban innovation and debilitating racial oppression can be vividly seen in the racial and economic disparity of contemporary American cities. As America's third largest and most segregated... more
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      Participatory DesignDesign ResearchInterdisciplinary research (Social Sciences)Critical Design
SDG11 – ‘making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’ – draws attention to the criticality of urban governance in the quest for sustainable development. Reflecting this, diverse city labels, such as... more
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      Urban PlanningUrban PolicySustainable CitiesSmart Cities
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      African StudiesUrban AnthropologyDemocratic Republic of CongoUrban Futures
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      Right to the cityUrban FuturesPalermo
Heteropolis Published by Adaptive Actions Even if cities are becoming heterogeneous, homogeneous sectors persist, multiply and last. In this context, is Heteropolis something that exists or is it a project to carry out, a city to... more
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      Gender StudiesArchitectureQueer TheoryUrban Anthropology
Because of rapid urban concentration in large cities in developing countries, especially in Egypt where about half of the country's urban population is concentrated in two cities, and because of the mounting problems associated with this... more
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      Urban StudiesEgyptDecentralizationUrban Futures
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      Human GeographyUrban GeographyUrban PlanningUrban Studies
Cette contribution présente de manière synthétique le contenu du livre « Le vivant en ville, nouvelles émergences : recherches et publication de synthèse » paru fin 2016, et les activités menées par la Métropole de Lyon ainsi que par... more
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      CommonsUrban AgricultureSustainable CitiesUrban Futures
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      Climate ChangeScenario Based PlanningEnergy PolicyEnergy and Environment
AI developments on smart cities, if not critical, risk making a flawed urban model more efficient. Instead, we suggest that AI should challenge the mainstream techno-optimistic approach to solving urban problems by dialoguing with other... more
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      SociologyCognitive ScienceApplied MathematicsComputer Science
La possibile commercializzazione, in un futuro più o meno prossimo, di auto-mobili a guida autonoma ha dato vita ad un acceso dibattito circa gli effetti trasformativi dell'automazione dei trasporti sulle realtà urbane. Proponendo un... more
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      Computer VisionMachine LearningUrban GovernanceHuman-Nonhuman Assemblages
Smart urbanism is a currently popular and widespread way of conceptualising the future city. At the same time, the smart city is critiqued by several scholars as difficult to define, and as being almost invisible to the naked eye. The... more
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      Urban Technology & SustainabilityTechnological InnovationFuture citiesSmart City
AI developments on smart cities, if not critical, risk making a flawed urban model more efficient. Instead, we suggest that AI should challenge the mainstream techno-optimistic approach to solving urban problems by dialoguing with other... more
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      Artificial IntelligenceUrban PlanningUrban StudiesUrban Ecology
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      Strategic PlanningICT for DevelopmentSocio-technical transitionsSmart Cities
The last years, the island of Lesvos has become the main entrance to Europe for many refugees and migrants from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and African countries. This ongoing humanitarian crisis has changed the socio-spatial landscape of... more
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      Refugee CampsUrban FuturesRefugees, migration and immigration
Reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic suggest that this crisis can be interpreted as an opportunity to rethink the capitalist system and avoid a return to the “old normal”. In this line of thought, this article approaches the critical... more
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      Critical TheoryHuman GeographyPolitical ScienceUrban Studies
Smart urbanism is a currently popular and widespread way of conceptualising the future city. At the same time, the smart city is critiqued by several scholars as difficult to define, and as being almost invisible to the naked eye. The... more
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      Human GeographyUrban PlanningUrban StudiesUrban Technology & Sustainability
Neste texto utilizarei o tema da segurança urbana e a minha experiência de investigação nessa área para levantar algumas questões fulcrais para o futuro das cidades, do seu governo e da sua democracia. Com esse objetivo, recorrerei a uma... more
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      Futures StudiesPublic SafetyUrban FuturesUrban Security
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      Climate ChangeEnergy PolicyClimate Change Adaptation And Mitigation StrategiesScenario planning
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      Scenario Based PlanningUrban PlanningEnergy PolicyEnergy and Environment
Abstract SDG 11 – ‘making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’ – draws attention to the criticality of urban governance in the quest for sustainable development. Reflecting this, diverse city labels,... more
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      Environmental EngineeringSociologyCleaner ProductionUrban Planning
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      Climate ChangeRegional and Local GovernanceSouth AsiaSoutheast Asia
The smart city is often marketed and described as being predicated on flows of data and networks of information that make individual urban citizens ‘visible’ and ‘transparent’ through technological interfaces like the smartphone. This... more
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      SociologyUrban PlanningUrban StudiesAuthoritarianism
This is a contribution to: “Orientations to the Future,” Rebecca Bryant and Daniel M. Knight, eds., American Ethnologist website, March 8.
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      Urban AnthropologyURBAN SUSTAINABILITYTemporalitySustainable Urban Planning
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      Environmental EngineeringCleaner ProductionUrban PlanningUrban Policy
[This is a written version of a presentation I gave at the University of Calgary in 2005 that was prepared for publication but never published. The section on Peak Oil turned out to be quite wrong about scarcity, though the arguments for... more
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      Sense of PlacePlacePlacemakingUrban Futures
Over the past two decades urban social life has undergone a rapid and pervasive geocoding, becoming mediated, augmented and anticipated by location-sensitive technologies and services that generate and utilise big, personal, locative... more
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      Location-based mediaLocative MediaBig DataStaging
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      Climate ChangeRegional and Local GovernanceSouth AsiaSoutheast Asia
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      HistorySocial ChangeMusicCommunication
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      BusinessTechnologyUrban StudiesDeveloping Countries
The policy pointers presented in this report are the result of a three-year (2015-18) research project led by Federico Caprotti at the University of Exeter. The project, Smart Eco-Cities for a Green Economy: A Comparative Analysis of... more
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      ResiliencePolitical ScienceSustainable DevelopmentUrban Planning
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      Climate ChangeRegional and Local GovernanceSouth AsiaSoutheast Asia
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      Political ScienceUrban Futures