Internet-Based Neighborhood Information Systems

Krouk, Danny; Pitkin, Bill; Richman, Neil

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“…Indeed, numerous community projects have used RS and GIS for participatory urban planning (see Elwood and Leitner, 1998;Hovorka and Auerbach, 2010;Nuojua, 2010;Yu and Cai, 2009). Therefore, CI researchers are encouraged to explore how ICTs can contribute to such communicative planning processes (Gretzel et al, 2009;Krouk et al, 2000).…”

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Community Informatics and the New Urbanism: Incorporating Information and Communication Technologies into Planning Integrated Urban Communities

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2012

Journal of Urban Technology

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The growing development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has influenced the use of urban spaces. People tend to depreciate physical place, while they extend structures of associational life beyond geographic limitation and focus on a place-less, networked form of human relationship as community. On the other hand, urban spaces are strategically designed and developed with the help of technological innovation to boost local tourism, draw global investment, and effectively control the public. This study deals with this technology-driven, bifurcated, urban spatial transformation. First, we discuss what drives such change and how the use of ICTs affects the way people use urban spaces. Based on this assessment, we address a normative use of ICTs for community-based urban planning. For this, we provide the concept, Community Informatics-Supported New Urbanism (CI-NU), which basically suggests ways of collaboration between community informatics practitioners and new urbanists to accomplish their shared goals of integrated community development.

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Community Informatics and the New Urbanism: Incorporating Information and Communication Technologies into Planning Integrated Urban Communities

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Shin²

2012

Journal of Urban Technology

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“…155Mitchell argues that by employing information age design principles, planners and architects can deal with the problems of the industrial-era city and create more livable cities. Government can work more efficiently by using these new technologies, and planning support systems that take advantage of the Web and multimedia tools can help planners to develop plans and increase community partici-pation in planning (Krouk et al 2000, Lenk, 1999, Schön et al 1999. These emerging examples of how planners can benefit from information technology have given hope that this latest technology will be the answer to our urban problems.…”

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A Historical Perspective of Technology and Planning

Pitkin¹

2012

Planning Journal

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“…Internet-based neighborhood information systems provide community residents with the opportunity to conduct on-line property and neighborhood research and enter into local policy debates, thus pushing the boundaries of participation in urban planning [15]. Even in the traditionally centralized world of Geographic Information Systems, organizations are taking advantage of decreasing computing costs and user-friendly desktop software to utilize GIS in participatory planning processes [12].…”

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Community informatics: hope or hype?

Pitkin¹

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Community informatics is a promising strategy for taking advantage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to further goals of community development. It is important, however, that proponents of this approach recognize that it is based on the assumption that technology in itself can lead to positive social development. This "techno-utopianism" is subject to various critiques, which can be grouped into three categories: methodological, philosophical and ideological. Reflecting on the implications of these critiques, we can develop several recommendations for "democratizing" community informatics. In order to retain the "hope" that ICTs can help lead to greater social, political, and economic equity, it is necessary to not succumb to the seductive "hype" that surrounds these technological developments. This perspective could lay the groundwork for an "ethics of community informatics."

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Internet-Based Neighborhood Information Systems

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Community Informatics and the New Urbanism: Incorporating Information and Communication Technologies into Planning Integrated Urban Communities

Community Informatics and the New Urbanism: Incorporating Information and Communication Technologies into Planning Integrated Urban Communities

A Historical Perspective of Technology and Planning

Community informatics: hope or hype?

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