Social Media Data Analysis in Urban E-Planning

Nummi, Pilvi

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-7030-1.ch028

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“…Therefore, we aim to develop a set of relevant metrics to gain a minimal understandings of the quality of cities without site surveys. Currently, social media data offers new conceptual and analytic paths [10][11][12][13], especially when combined with other sources of understanding, including local knowledge [14][15][16][17]. Societally, thus, key issues involve increasing awareness about monotowns, foregrounding their hidden life and urban potentials, directing planning decisions, and arguing for local mobilization and resource-pooling.…”

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Implementing Gehl’s Theory to Study Urban Space. The Case of Monotowns

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The paper presents a method to operationalize Jan Gehl’s questions for public space into metrics to map Russian monotowns’ urban life in 2017. With the use of social media data, it becomes possible to scale Gehl’s approach from the survey of small urban areas to the analysis of entire cities while maintaining the human scale’s resolution. When underperforming public spaces are detected, we propose a matrix for urban design interventions using Jane Jacobs’ typologies for good city life. Furthermore, this method was deployed to improve the conditions of public spaces in Russian monotowns through a series of architectural briefs for design competitions and urban design guidelines for local administrations.

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Implementing Gehl’s Theory to Study Urban Space. The Case of Monotowns

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“…In this sense, Twitter can serve as a communications tool to facilitate public involvement activities (Lopez-Ornelas 2017). Several studies have focused on social media (Twitter particularly) to enhance participatory planning activities (see Evans-Cowley and Hollander 2010;Nummi 2019). The challenge remains to evaluate these efforts and assess the transferability to different places and circumstances.…”

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Urban Planning Academics and Twitter: Who and what?

Sanchez

2021

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Twitter has increasingly become a resource used by academics to share scholarship and opinions within professional networks. This paper presents a descriptive analysis of Twitter use by urban planning faculty, reporting characteristics of users, the topics posted, and indicators of Twitter influence among urban planning faculty as well as those interested in planning from outside academic circles. Approximately one-third of urban planning academics are active Twitter users, and as of yet, there have been no empirical analyses of how and why they use the social media platform. This analysis uses Twitter data from active accounts for urban planning faculty in the U.S. and Canada identified as being used for professional purposes for the period from March 2007 to April 2019. Considering how planning academics use Twitter lends insights on its usefulness for academic discussion and scholarly communications. The conclusion discusses the prospects for planning academics to better utilize Twitter to broaden and deepen their professional activities while noting particular concerns.

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