Data-Driven Processes in Participatory Urbanism: The “Smartness” of Historical Cities

Artopoulos, Georgios; Costa, Carlos Smaniotto

doi:10.1080/20507828.2019.1631061

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“…In engaging the community and providing services for tourists' though innovative communication technologies become one of positive factors. The use of ICTs as tools of smart tourism development [114][115][116], and for gathering knowledge and information about heritage sites [40], is a part of similar activities carried out in many countries and has a positive dimension [117,118]. Gathering information is very relevant in the case of UBH; it is a way to overcome issues of concerns and fears to be in the underground [18].…”

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“…The interactive forms of salt tourism are more and more being appreciated, with an increase of activities being organized in the virtual sphere, driven by the advances of information and communication technologies (ICTs). ICT are gaining importance in many areas of human activities in everyday life [36], in public spaces [37,38], in the connection between heritage and augmented reality [39], and areas of historical and cultural heritage to enhance visitor interpretation [40][41][42] or enhance their management [43][44][45].…”

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Creating Tourism Destinations of Underground Built Heritage—The Cases of Salt Mines in Poland, Portugal, and Romania

2021

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Salt mines, a significant category of local, regional, national, and/or European underground heritage, are becoming attractive tourism destinations. This paper examines three cases of salt mining in different European countries, namely Wieliczka in Poland, Campina de Cima in Portugal, and Turda in Romania. They are analyzed in the context of history, typical attributes of their attractiveness, and new uses after the salt extraction was or is going to be stopped, in order to detect their unique values as important assets for both Underground Built Heritage (UBH) and Salt Heritage Tourism (SHT). The results of their comparison show that despite a positive impact related to their protection as cultural and industrial heritage, there are also some negative aspects related to increasing costs of their maintenance and adaptation of salt mines to new functions and to meet the tourism needs. By putting in place measures to enhance the awareness of their values and for activating the local community, the three mines are showcases for the economic outputs for their sites and regions, as well as for increasing knowledge regarding UBH.

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Creating Tourism Destinations of Underground Built Heritage—The Cases of Salt Mines in Poland, Portugal, and Romania

2021

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“…Voinov et al [3], Mangano et al [24], Grogan [35], Nae et al [36], Karimi and Brown [37], Yang et al [38], Kumar et al [39], Kuru and Ansell [40], Leonard et al [41], Stave et al [42], Artopoulos and Costa [43], Pardo-García et al [44], Andreani et al [45], Rall et al [46], Olazabal et al [47], Rexhepi et al [48], Fiandrino et al [49], Sharifi et al [50], Le Pira et al [51], Olszewski et al [52], Neuenschwander et al [53], Shafqat et al [54], Stauskis [55], Forlano and Mathew [56], Lewis et al [57], Rosol [58].…”

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Simulation-Based Participatory Modelling in Urban and Production Logistics: A Review on Advances and Trends

2021

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Simulation-based participatory modelling allows integration of all types of knowledge including empirical, technical and scientific from all disciplines and domains. Thus, in recent years, the use of participatory modelling has been continuously increasing in many fields including logistics. With a view of achieving better understanding of the subject, this article systematically reviews the advances made in participatory modelling in the field of urban and production logistics in the last decade. It further reports the findings transparently following a categorization based on (i) the purpose of participatory modelling in the domain, and (ii) depending on the purpose how data is collected, processed and outcomes are presented. The review resulted in 97 articles which were analysed and categorized based on the above two questions formulated in the literature surveyed. The review revealed that apart from the three existing categories of purposes, namely, reflexive, descriptive and normative there is an emerging fourth category that was analytical in nature and 15 out of 97 articles analyzed belonged to this category. The authors decided to call this category analytical field empirical modelling which is primarily based on mathematical modelling and use of computational methods. We present these results with the help of a categorization. During the analysis for the second research question, we discovered that though the conventional ways of data collection and processing, such as interviews and workshops, which remain significantly present, in electronic data crowdsourcing and data processing via computational methods are emerging.

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“…With the advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), urban governance has undergone prominent changes, as ICT can promote collaborative governance and increase participation and engagement in government. ICT can act as a catalyst for engaging people with their environment and culture (Artopoulos & Smaniotto Costa, 2019;García-Esparza & Altaba, 2018). It is increasingly being used for information and popularisation purposes in implementing the PB and attracting citizens to participate in the voting process.…”

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Participatory Budgeting and Placemaking: Concepts, Methods, and Practices

Smaniotto Costa,

García-Esparza,

Kimic

2024

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Participatory budgeting has arisen as an interesting form of citizen participation in urban development and, thus, as a new way of exercising placemaking and grassroots democracy. In this article, we provide an analysis of projects in Lisbon (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), and Warsaw (Poland) with a focus on three key projects concerned with improving the public realm and their contribution to enhancing the network of public open spaces. Our guiding question is: What are the potential benefits of participatory budgeting to increase green spaces and urban governance? A comparison of the three cities’ participatory budgeting programmes provides an overview of their social and political goals and the contents that provide opportunities for citizens’ participation in decision-making. The cases of Jardim do Caracol da Penha (Lisbon), the Green Street Świętokrzyska (Warsaw), and the Green Plan for the Poblats Marítims District (Valencia) pave the way for a discussion on engagement, empowerment, and connectivity with the local communities through public spaces. Using participatory budgeting as a planning and political instrument at the municipal level, as the three cases show, can be a useful way to enhance and enrich the communities’ engagement with their environments. One aspect that emerged is the communication strategies implemented in the three cases. The analysis shows that the use of media and social networks to disseminate information and gather supporters for their ideas and this growth in political influence seems to be essential for participatory budgeting. The study is backed by desk work (comprehensive understanding of the local programmes) and field work to better identify the changes in loco.

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Data-Driven Processes in Participatory Urbanism: The “Smartness” of Historical Cities

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Creating Tourism Destinations of Underground Built Heritage—The Cases of Salt Mines in Poland, Portugal, and Romania

Creating Tourism Destinations of Underground Built Heritage—The Cases of Salt Mines in Poland, Portugal, and Romania

Simulation-Based Participatory Modelling in Urban and Production Logistics: A Review on Advances and Trends

Participatory Budgeting and Placemaking: Concepts, Methods, and Practices

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