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Digital Citizenship Mediating Planning Participation and Space Appropriation
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Digital Citizenship Mediating Planning Participation and Space Appropriation

A special issue of Urban Science (ISSN 2413-8851).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 11040

Special Issue Editors

Dr. David Leite Viana

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ISTAR/Information Sciences, Technology and Architecture Research Centre, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: active citizen participation; geo-partipation; e-planning; formal methods in urbanism; space apprpriation
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Dr. Isabel Cristina Carvalho

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CIAC-UAb, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: digital media-art; digital citizenship; collaborative mapping; collaborative planning; feminisms

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions for the Special Issue “Digital Citizenship Mediating Planning Participation and Space Appropriation”, which aims to gather cutting-edge research on technological development in digital participation and e-planning. The focus is on geo-participation and active citizen participation in collaborative planning processes. The scope of the Special Issue is on diverse and plural participation in cocreation approaches toward inclusive urban planning. The purpose is to deepen the understanding of the role digital citizenship can play in better community engagement and empowering people to appropriate urban spaces in culturally plural and integrated ways. The Special Issue will supplement existing literature by adding insights into how to formalize digital citizenship into collaborative planning participation processes to produce more humanized cities (with higher levels of gender equality in active citizen participation). The state of the art of the Special Issue main topic provides examples where digital citizenship is explained case by case. As such, the goal of the Special Issue is to advance the theory on its core subject, suppressing the trend of dealing with digital citizenship as a specific occurrence set of tactical approaches and contextual practices. The Special Issue thus invites papers explaining the path from particular/singular related experiences and events in this field of work into a systematic body of knowledge structuring and nurturing new theory.

Dr. David Leite Viana
Dr. Isabel Cristina Carvalho
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • digital citizenship
  • digitally driven collaborative planning processes
  • digital media-art empowering people’s participation
  • gender equality in active citizen participation
  • geo-participation
  • formalizing cocreation
  • e-Planning
  • inclusive urban planning
  • new ways of space appropriation based on technological immersion

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Location Hunting Game: Developing an Application to Promote Gameful Hybrid Machi-aruki Town Exploration
by Salma Tabi and Yasushi Ikeda
Urban Sci. 2023, 7(4), 126; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7040126 - 18 Dec 2023
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Previous research has established the relevance of digital tools in participatory processes of urban planning and design. Nevertheless, the debate about the role that these information and communication technologies (ICTs) play within the participatory process, with respect to established practices and methods, and [...] Read more.
Previous research has established the relevance of digital tools in participatory processes of urban planning and design. Nevertheless, the debate about the role that these information and communication technologies (ICTs) play within the participatory process, with respect to established practices and methods, and in relation to community building and public space, is still ongoing. The purpose of this paper is to present the design and development of a participation tool that attempts to combine physical and digital forms of interaction with public space and the community in the context of an essential initiation practice in Japanese participatory planning, called machi-aruki (town walking or walking tours). This tool, named the Location Hunting Game (LHG), employs location data as a medium to connect digital and physical realms, and was developed in a broader theory-driven research endeavor that explores the potential of location data in collective urban planning and governance. This article presents the concepts and objectives of LHG, the game design, the interface design, the prototyping process, the technical specifications, and a summary of the preliminary results of a trial study. The results provide insights into the potentials and limitations of the current prototype and development challenges, and conclude with future research steps. Full article
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Assessment and Analysis of Citizens’ Perceptions of Visual Corridors in Tehran City
by Elham Zabetian Targhi and Vida Razi
Urban Sci. 2022, 6(4), 94; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6040094 - 15 Dec 2022
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Today, in many cities, urban facades are typically forming according to the high-level codes, while citizens’ expectations and preferences are different from them. According to the studies conducted theory, using a conceptualization technique, related dimensions are assessed. For details, each facade is divided [...] Read more.
Today, in many cities, urban facades are typically forming according to the high-level codes, while citizens’ expectations and preferences are different from them. According to the studies conducted theory, using a conceptualization technique, related dimensions are assessed. For details, each facade is divided into three parts: ground floor, body, and coping. The individuals’ perceptions are investigated using electronic questionnaires and with panoramic photos. To assess vision while moving, studies are carried out at the sites (6 selected streets in Tehran) using semi-structured interviews as well as photographing the preferred scenes and the worst scenes (VEP method). According to the analyses, the main result of this research shows that overall perception was greater than in partial. The order in urban facades will not necessarily be perceived by the alignment of the openings and the creation of a uniform skyline, or restrictions on the color and type of facade materials. This is the same damage mentioned in the critique of the upper-level design codes in the present study. Therefore, it is better to consider only a limited number of various items in building facades, that people can perceive, fixed and controlled, and leave the rest to the owners and designers. In this way, the private rights of the owners and the art of the designers can be respected by observing the facade as a common area between private privacy and public privacy. Full article
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Detect Megaregional Communities Using Network Science Analytics
by Ming Zhang and Bolin Lan
Urban Sci. 2022, 6(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6010012 - 16 Feb 2022
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Urban science research and the research on megaregions share a common interest in the system of cities and its implications for world urbanization and sustainability. The two lines of inquiry currently remain largely separate efforts. This study aims to bridge urban science and [...] Read more.
Urban science research and the research on megaregions share a common interest in the system of cities and its implications for world urbanization and sustainability. The two lines of inquiry currently remain largely separate efforts. This study aims to bridge urban science and megaregion research by applying network science’s community detection algorithm to explore the spatial pattern of megaregions in the contiguous United States. A network file was constructed consisting of county centroids as nodes, the direct links between each pair of counties as edges, and inter-county commuting flows as the weight to capture spatial interactions. Analyses were carried out at two levels, one at the national level using Gephi and the other for the State of Texas involving NetworkX, an open-source Python programming package to implement a weighted community detection algorithm. Results show the detected communities largely conforming to the qualitative knowledge on megaregions. Despite a number of limitations, the study indicates the great potential of applying network science analytics to improve understanding of the spatial process of megaregions. Full article
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