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
2 years ago
Mark Dean weighs up recent literature, and shows how, as strategies of community engagement, tactical urbanism can enhance an engaged citizenry.
2 years ago
In an era of increasing urbanization, twenty-first century city-building exacerbates divisions. Urbanite societies are plagued by poverty and social exclusion – not to mention the insidious corporatization that surrounds the embrace of the Smart City. So how does the future city include all citizens, not just the wealthy elite?
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.
3 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.
3 years ago
Public participation evaluation frameworks delineates 14 frameworks in the USA to better comprehend engagement methodologies.
3 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.
3 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
Second in our series of Engagement Primers, 54 international participation models to better map public participation in practice and theory.
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
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