The data politics of the urban age

Ratti, Carlo; Álvarez, Ricardo

doi:10.1057/s41599-019-0264-3

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“…As the Japanese government is nurturing the ambition of Society 5.0, Kitakyushu city can take this opportunity to revise its data policy employing big data for better green growth development. The complex interaction among industrial growth, road construction, and air pollution highlighted in this study might be a befitting case for the application of big data and artificial intelligence to solve urban problems (Duarte and Álvarez, 2019).…”

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The trilemma of sustainable industrial growth: evidence from a piloting OECD’s Green city

Vuong

Nguyen

2019

Palgrave Commun

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Can green growth policies help protect the environment while keeping the industry growing and infrastructure expanding? The City of Kitakyushu, Japan has actively implemented eco-friendly policies since 1967 and recently inspired the pursuit of sustainable development around the world, especially in the Global South region. However, empirical studies on the effects of green growth policies are still lacking. This study explores the relationship between road infrastructure development and average industrial firm size with air pollution in the city through the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Non-linear Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) methods were applied on nearly 50-years' time series data, from 1967 to 2015. The results show that the shape of the EKC of industrial growth, measured by average firm size, depends on the type of air pollution: inverted N-shaped relationships with NO 2 and CO, and the U-shaped relationships with falling dust particle and O x. Regarding infrastructure development, on the one hand, our analysis shows a positive effect of road construction on alleviating the amount of falling dust and CO concentration. On the other hand, the emissions of NO 2 and O x are shown to rise when plotted against road construction. The decline of CO emission, when plotted against both industrial growth and road development, indicates that the ruthlessness of the local government in pursuing green growth policies has been effective in this case. However, the story is not straightforward when it comes to other air pollutants, which hints at the limits of the current policies. The case of Kitakyushu illustrates the complex dynamics of the interaction among policy, industry, infrastructure, and air pollution. It can serve as an important reference point for other cities in the Global South when policies are formed, and progress is measured in the pursuit of a green economy. Finally, as an OECD SDGs pilot city and the leading Asian green-growth city, policymakers in Kitakyushu city are recommended to revise the data policy to enhance the findability and interoperability of data, as well as to invest in the application of big data.

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The trilemma of sustainable industrial growth: evidence from a piloting OECD’s Green city

Vuong

Nguyen

2019

Palgrave Commun

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“…On the other hand, not all databases on transport modes and related dynamics are available to researchers, especially those sourced with private systems [31], given the strategic and economic value of data politics in the ongoing urban age [32]. Passengers on certain transport modes or socio-demographic cohorts may not yet be exploring (or even aware of) the urban mobility services and applications that are available through smartphones [33], and certain digital data sensors do not capture common variables used in transport research, such as transport mode or trip origin/destination [31].…”

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Spatiotemporal Variation in Bicycle Road Crashes and Traffic Volume in Berlin: Implications for Future Research, Planning, and Network Design

Medeiros

Bojić

Jammot-Paillet

2021

Future Transportation

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Urban bicycling has been largely marginalized for decades in the global north and south. Despite a renaissance over the last two decades in academic research, political discourse, sustainability activism, and planning, cities often struggle with data quality and quantity. Digitalization has led to more and better data sources, but they still must be validated and compared with findings from conventional travel surveys. With the COVID-19 pandemic, bicycling and associated road facilities expanded, as did road crashes involving bicycles. This study utilized tens of thousands of datapoints sourced by public institutions and digital devices belonging to private companies that have spread across Berlin over the last ten years and are currently ubiquitous. What does an integrated analysis of data from these novel sources reveal for urban bicycling research, planning, and network design? We explored and visualized the relationships and spatiotemporal variations in (i) bicycling volumes and (ii) crashes, unveiling the (iii) distribution of and correlation between datasets and the city’s bikeway network at an unprecedented threshold. The findings can be useful for special interest groups and to guide future urban bicycling research, planning, and network design.

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“…As such, this article analyzes the approach to citizenship in Europe through the lens of the COVID-19 [33]. Citizenship encompasses concepts of not only identification and belonging, but also power, control, and techno-politics [85][86][87]. Long before COVID-19 swept the globe, insecurity and social vulnerabilities were already ubiquitous.…”

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Platform and Data Co-Operatives amidst European Pandemic Citizenship

Calzada

2020

Sustainability

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Many European pandemic citizens will likely be unemployed during the COVID-19 crisis. This article explores whether it is possible to alter existing data governance extractivist models to incentivize the emergence of platform and data co-operatives to protect European pandemic citizens’ labor and digital rights. As such, this article aims to decipher the rationale behind the proliferation of platform and data co-operatives by responding to how new forms of co-operatives using digital technologies can provide feasible socio-economic alternatives to improve post-COVID-19 working conditions for vulnerable or already empowered pandemic citizens. This article is structured as follows. First, the European “pandemic citizenship” term is described. Second, the rationale of this article is consequently presented. Third, the research question, two hypotheses, and the action research triangulation are described. The deployment of the triangulation methodology based on action research, mixed methods and social innovation reveals the main findings through (i) Delphi study results, (ii) a taxonomy for platform and data co-operative cases, and ultimately, (iii) fieldwork research conducted in Glasgow, Barcelona and Tallinn. This article concludes that co-operatives (platform-based or data-driven), stemming from the potential resilient response of European pandemic citizens, may currently portray a feasible alternative to data governance extractivist models.

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The data politics of the urban age

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

The trilemma of sustainable industrial growth: evidence from a piloting OECD’s Green city

The trilemma of sustainable industrial growth: evidence from a piloting OECD’s Green city

Spatiotemporal Variation in Bicycle Road Crashes and Traffic Volume in Berlin: Implications for Future Research, Planning, and Network Design

Platform and Data Co-Operatives amidst European Pandemic Citizenship

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