Human Smart Cities: Rethinking the Interplay between Design and Planning

✍ Scribed by Grazia Concilio, Francesca Rizzo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Strategic Planning as Governance of Long-Lasting Transformative Practices....Pages 3-20
Urban Living Labs: Opportunities in and for Planning....Pages 21-40
Smart Cities + Smart Citizens = Civic Intelligence?....Pages 41-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Design and the Transformation of Cities....Pages 63-79
Design At the Intersection Among City Challenges, New Public Services, and Policy-Making....Pages 81-99
Spatial Planning and Design Citizenship....Pages 101-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
The Frugal Government Concept Revisited....Pages 121-140
From Public-Private-People Partnerships to Trading Zones in Urban Planning....Pages 141-157
New Urban Services: Toward New Relations Between Economy and Society....Pages 159-174
Socially Inclusive Urban Transformation After the Great Recession....Pages 175-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
The Human Smart Cities Manifesto: A Global Perspective....Pages 197-202
Sletten: Rethinking Urban Habitats Through Creative Management and Social Engagement....Pages 203-210
Milan: Community Gardens as a Space for New Societal Assemblages and Learning on Public Goods....Pages 211-218
Aveiro: Civic Movements to Promote Smarter Decisions for the Future of the City....Pages 219-227
Palermo: Living Labs for Urban Regeneration....Pages 229-237
Back Matter....Pages 239-255

✦ Subjects

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Urbanism; Sustainable Development