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This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between
digital social innovation initiatives and the city. It delivers a
fresh, accessible and case-based discussion on the emergence of
digitally-enabled social innovation practices in Europe that are
redesigning the urban space and challenging the consolidated urban
governance processes. By adopting a critical geography perspective,
this ground-breaking analysis of digital social innovation provides
the reader with an accessible overview of the way in which urban
reproductive processes mobilise the physical and the virtual
dimensions of the city and generate distinctive spatial
configurations. Together with novel urban narratives and
socio-technical imaginaries, these support the existing geometries
of power or construct new ones. The author clearly describes
contemporary cities as the new battlegrounds for controlling the
digital sphere, shaped by the interplay between digital capitalism
and resistance movements. In light of grassroots initiatives
advanced by cyber-activists, e-makers and hackers, the book unveils
the socio-political and cultural underpinnings of the revolution
produced by the digital social innovations in the city and the
socio-technological regimes supporting them. This author
successfully sheds new critical light on traditional innovation
studies exploring the debate on digital innovation through the lens
of social and cultural geography providing an invaluable reference
for those working in this field.
This book analyzes the ongoing transformation in the "smart city"
paradigm and explores the possibilities that technological
innovations offer for the effective involvement of ordinary
citizens in collective knowledge production and decision-making
processes within the context of urban planning and management. To
so, it pursues an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions
from a range of experts including city managers, public policy
makers, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialists,
and researchers. The first two parts of the book focus on the
generation and use of data by citizens, with or without
institutional support, and the professional management of data in
city governance, highlighting the social connectivity and
livability aspects essential to vibrant and healthy urban
environments. In turn, the third part presents inspiring case
studies that illustrate how data-driven solutions can empower
people and improve urban environments, including enhanced
sustainability. The book will appeal to all those who are
interested in the required transformation in the planning,
management, and operations of data-rich cities and the ways in
which such cities can employ the latest technologies to use data
efficiently, promoting data access, data sharing, and
interoperability.
This book analyzes the ongoing transformation in the "smart city"
paradigm and explores the possibilities that technological
innovations offer for the effective involvement of ordinary
citizens in collective knowledge production and decision-making
processes within the context of urban planning and management. To
so, it pursues an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions
from a range of experts including city managers, public policy
makers, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialists,
and researchers. The first two parts of the book focus on the
generation and use of data by citizens, with or without
institutional support, and the professional management of data in
city governance, highlighting the social connectivity and
livability aspects essential to vibrant and healthy urban
environments. In turn, the third part presents inspiring case
studies that illustrate how data-driven solutions can empower
people and improve urban environments, including enhanced
sustainability. The book will appeal to all those who are
interested in the required transformation in the planning,
management, and operations of data-rich cities and the ways in
which such cities can employ the latest technologies to use data
efficiently, promoting data access, data sharing, and
interoperability.
While most of the existing literature on community gardens and
urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view
or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation
of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal
agenda, this collection investigates and reflects on the complex
and sometimes contradictory nature of these initiatives. It
questions to what extent they address social inequality and
injustice and interrogates them as forms of political agency that
contest, transform and re-signify 'the urban'. Claims for land
access, the right to food, the social benefits of city
greening/community conviviality, and insurgent forms of planning,
are multiplying within policy, advocacy and academic literature;
and are becoming increasingly manifested through the practice of
urban gardening. These claims are symptomatic of the way issues of
social reproduction intersect with the environment, as well as the
fact that urban planning and the production of space remains a
crucial point of an ever-evolving debate on equity and justice in
the city. Amid a mushrooming over positive literature, this book
explores the initiatives of urban gardening critically rather than
apologetically. The contributors acknowledge that these initiatives
are happening within neoliberal environments, which promote -among
other things - urban competition, the dismantling of the welfare
state, the erasure of public space and ongoing austerity. These
initiatives, thus, can either be manifestation of new forms of
solidarity, political agency and citizenship or new tools for
enclosure, inequality and exclusion. In designing this book, the
progressive stance of these initiatives has therefore been taken as
a research question, rather than as an assumption. The result is a
collection of chapters that explore potentials and limitations of
political gardening as a practice to envision and implement a more
sustainable and just city.
This book presents a vibrant study of the rise, decline, and
transformation of environmental thinking. The author's analysis
moves from the proclaimed death of environmentalism toward the
emerging theory and practices of postenvironmentalism in its
manifold interpretations. Building upon current transformation of
the relationship between science, technology, society and the
environment, the book combines a theory-informed presentation of
worldwide cases and crucial events in the history of
environmentalism with a journey into scholarly explorations in
order to answer the crucial question: where is environmental
thinking heading?
While most of the existing literature on community gardens and
urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view
or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation
of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal
agenda, this collection investigates and reflects on the complex
and sometimes contradictory nature of these initiatives. It
questions to what extent they address social inequality and
injustice and interrogates them as forms of political agency that
contest, transform and re-signify 'the urban'. Claims for land
access, the right to food, the social benefits of city
greening/community conviviality, and insurgent forms of planning,
are multiplying within policy, advocacy and academic literature;
and are becoming increasingly manifested through the practice of
urban gardening. These claims are symptomatic of the way issues of
social reproduction intersect with the environment, as well as the
fact that urban planning and the production of space remains a
crucial point of an ever-evolving debate on equity and justice in
the city. Amid a mushrooming over positive literature, this book
explores the initiatives of urban gardening critically rather than
apologetically. The contributors acknowledge that these initiatives
are happening within neoliberal environments, which promote -among
other things - urban competition, the dismantling of the welfare
state, the erasure of public space and ongoing austerity. These
initiatives, thus, can either be manifestation of new forms of
solidarity, political agency and citizenship or new tools for
enclosure, inequality and exclusion. In designing this book, the
progressive stance of these initiatives has therefore been taken as
a research question, rather than as an assumption. The result is a
collection of chapters that explore potentials and limitations of
political gardening as a practice to envision and implement a more
sustainable and just city.
The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis
of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of
bottom-up socio-political participation. By complementing the
scholarly perspectives through posing real cases, it focuses on how
these practices are able to address - together with environmental
and planning questions - the most fundamental issues of spatial
justice, social cohesion, inclusiveness, social innovations and
equity in cities. Through a critical exploration of international
case studies, this collection investigates whether, and how,
gardeners are willing and able to contrast urban spatial
arrangements that produce peculiar forms of social organisation and
structures for inclusion and exclusion, by considering pervasive
inequalities in the access to space, natural resources and
services, as well as considerable disparities in living conditions.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development
Goal 16, Peace, justice and strong institutions -- .
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