Human Smart Cities: Rethinking the Interplay between Design and Planning

Human Smart Cities: Rethinking the Interplay between Design and Planning
ISBN-10
3319330241
ISBN-13
9783319330242
Category
Political Science
Pages
255
Language
English
Published
2016-07-13
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Grazia Concilio, Francesca Rizzo

Description

Within the most recent discussion on smart cities and the way this vision is affecting urban changes and dynamics, this book explores the interplay between planning and design both at the level of the design and planning domains’ theories and practices. 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 through dialogic interaction with and among citizens within a situated and cultural-specific frame.

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