Civic Engagement through DIY Urbanism and Collective Networked Action

Sawhney, Nitin; Klerk, Christo de; Malhotra, Shriya

doi:10.1080/02697459.2015.1054662

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“…The analysis for RQ1 shows that citizens value face‐to‐face meetings with organizations and close companions for effective land use, pollution management, public service access, and energy conservation. Online communication, including Facebook, also significantly accounted for SUD behaviors, congruent with previous research (Sawhney, de Klerk, & Malhotra, ). It seems that because SUD can directly impact citizens' quality of life in the forms of energy savings or gentrification (Goonetilleke et al, ), citizens may prefer face‐to‐face communication for serious discussions and decisions.…”

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Communicating sustainable development in the digital age: The relationship between citizens' storytelling and engagement intention

Kang

2018

Sustainable Development

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Although there are ample resources about government strategies and stakeholders on sustainable urban development, citizens' views have been relatively rare in the sustainability literature. This study examines how citizens' daily communication practices through storytelling agents are related to the intention of sustainable development behaviors that can affect public and environmental policies. The first survey of 110 citizens in the United States was used to confirm storytelling agents and sustainable urban development indicators. The second survey of 352 respondents found that local networks and online communication significantly predicted citizens' intention to participate in the behaviors of effective land use, pollution management, access to public services, and energy conservation. The results showed that citizens did not use social media such as Twitter and YouTube for the intention of sustainable urban development behaviors. The news media did not meet citizens' sustainable urban development information seeking needs. The role that Internet news, Facebook, and local meetings played in drawing citizens' social engagement in communities was emphasized. Implications of the results for the government's public and environmental policymaking were discussed. KEYWORDS communication infrastructure theory, environmental policy, information and communication technologies, social engagement, storytelling networks, sustainable development, urban development

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Communicating sustainable development in the digital age: The relationship between citizens' storytelling and engagement intention

Kang

2018

Sustainable Development

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“…Our own analysis brought up people's quest for more urbanity and the role of social media in citizen‐led participation. Other studies describe a spectrum of issues, such as self‐organized urban gardening, local energy production, public infrastructure, creating sustainable food chains, ownership of the city through urban new media, among others (Rosol, ; De Lange and De Waal, ; Sawhney et al ., ; Feldhoff, ; Reed and Keech, ). Any issue that gains weight in people's everyday lives, and may be notably influenced by long‐term city‐regional plans, involves potential for emerging city‐regional citizenship, and for the politicization of issues on a city‐regional scale.…”

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A Missing Citizen? Issue Based Citizenship in City‐Regional Planning

Häkli¹,

Kallio²,

Ruokolainen³

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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City regions are significant sites of economic development, policymaking, and everyday living. Yet in many countries they are weakly institutionalized and therefore lack established democratic practices. This article is based on a study exploring citizen participation in city‐regional planning in Finland, where traditional participatory means have largely failed to invite and involve citizens. The analysis approaches city regions relationally, as evolving processes with a changing spatial shape and scope. Through the notion of lived citizenship, including the dimensions of status, practices and acts, the article reveals how the dominant ideas of citizenship in city‐regional planning hide from view elements that are significant for citizen participation. Whereas people's rights to participation can largely be fulfilled on a territorial basis in municipalities and states through legal membership in political communities, in the context of weakly institutionalized city‐regional planning such status‐based forms of participation are typically not available. This vagueness has created an image of a missing city‐regional citizenry, which the article sets out to challenge and rework through the notion of issue‐based participation as lived citizenship.

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“…This article analyzes one such interaction, namely, the practice of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) urbanism. DIY urbanism has initially been related to small-scale, low-cost, and intentionally functional modifications of city space (Bermann and Clough Marinaro 2014;Douglas 2014Douglas , 2016Fabian and Samson 2016;Finn 2014;Sawhney et al 2015;Spataro 2016;Talen 2015). Also, as an alternative to formal or top-down urban planning, it describes a civic-minded approach to improve a city's sociocultural or esthetic potential (Fabian and Samson 2016;Finn 2014;Talen 2015).…”

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DIY Urbanism and the Lens of the Commons: Observations from Spain

Volont

2019

City & Community

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A growing body of literature has been explicitly concerned with a range of microspatial practices that are currently reshaping urban spaces under the valuable denominator of “DIY urbanism.” However, there is still much work to be done if we are to take into consideration DIY urbanism's primary source and output: the commons. As such, Spanish DIY collectives have taken an explicit interest in building and reclaiming the urban commonwealth through participatory DIY interventionism. Therefore, this article assesses Spanish DIY urbanism through the lens of the commons and asks how the vocabulary of the latter might help us to further understand the DIY practice. In so doing, DIY urbanism will be put forward as “a field of possibilities” through three key features that inform commons theorizing: threshold spatiality, value, and legitimacy.

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Civic Engagement through DIY Urbanism and Collective Networked Action

Cited by 38 publications

References 9 publications

Communicating sustainable development in the digital age: The relationship between citizens' storytelling and engagement intention

Communicating sustainable development in the digital age: The relationship between citizens' storytelling and engagement intention

A Missing Citizen? Issue Based Citizenship in City‐Regional Planning

DIY Urbanism and the Lens of the Commons: Observations from Spain

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