Strategies of Community Engagement: Tactical Urbanism
Mark Dean weighs up recent literature, and shows how, as strategies of community engagement, tactical urbanism can enhance an engaged citizenry.
Mark Dean
3 years ago
Mark Dean weighs up recent literature, and shows how, as strategies of community engagement, tactical urbanism can enhance an engaged citizenry.
3 years ago
Dr Alec Rolston, Centre for Freshwater and Environment Studies, Dundalk Institute of Technology, examines the rise in water-focussed approaches that are building a bridge between government and citizens in global water management.
4 years ago
Smart cities are all about citizen inclusion. But just how data-aware are city-users and makers? Researchers at the Centre for Big Open Linked Data look at the social issues of ubiquitous urban digitization.
4 years ago
Public participation evaluation frameworks delineates 14 frameworks in the USA to better comprehend engagement methodologies.
4 years ago
Digitisation of the city is heralded as bottom-up empowerment of its citizens. But just who defines citizenship in a hyper-connected urban space? Mark Dean unpacks recent academic literature that questions citizens’ rights in smart cities.
4 years ago
Where satire attempts to undermine autocracy and prejudice; the worst of fake news feeds into prejudices and seeks to create community outrage and undermine public confidence.
4 years ago
Celeste Young, Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies, weighs up deliberative democracy,’ democracy deficit’ and the radical potential of citizen’s juries.
4 years ago
Are backpackers an asset to rural communities? Human geographer, Ben Iaquinto, assesses public debate, backpacker tax and transient and resident community relationships.
4 years ago
From the emergence of e-governance, innovations of living laboratories to pokémon GO, Mark Dean unpacks recent literature around smart city technologies for twenty-first century engagement.
4 years ago
Can a ‘science’ of consultation improve engagement practice? Dr John May introduces information theory’s ‘Effective Number of Issues’ to better map efficiency of the consultation process.
4 years ago
While people use social media to cultivate a positive self-image, they can equally be interested in engaging in issues of social justice. Dr Fiona McKay looks at issues of ‘meaningful’ support of asylum seeker activism and refugee advocacy in online engagement.
4 years ago
Mark Dean, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University, continues his examination of government policy responses to manufacturing deindustrialisation in this two-part series: Manufacturing engagement.
4 years ago
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