The Role of Culture in a Sustainable Built Environment

Opoku, Alex

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14002-5_3

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“…Over the last decade, cultural sustainability, largely intended as the conservation and preservation of cultural capital [1,2], has emerged as a key topic of interest among different disciplines and contexts, such as public planning [3], urban development [4][5][6][7], sustainable development [8,9] and cultural policies [10][11][12]. Both at international and urban level the issue has attracted the attention of governments, companies and civil society organizations, which are increasingly recognizing the key role of culture in the implementation of national and local development strategies [4,[13][14][15].…”

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Leveraging Smart Open Innovation for Achieving Cultural Sustainability: Learning from a New City Museum Project

Errichiello

Micera

2018

Sustainability

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In recent years, cultural sustainability has attracted increasing attention within the discourse of sustainable development and sustainable cities. Notwithstanding some effort put on conceptualizing the relationship between culture and sustainability, research on the issue is still in a pre-paradigmatic stage and related empirical studies are scant. In particular, further knowledge is required to understand not only how cultural sustainability has been addressed strategically but also implemented in practice. In this direction, research has pointed out the role of social structures (e.g., partnerships, collaborations, etc.) for achieving cultural sustainability goals. However, focusing on smart cities, attention is limited to how collaborative arrangements can be leveraged within the development of new city services (e.g., smart open innovation) to sustain goals of environmental, economic and social sustainability, with cultural sustainability still playing a marginal role. This paper develops a new framework linking together the strategic level and the practice level in addressing cultural sustainability and conceptualizing the role of collaborative structures in the development of smart innovation. The framework is then used as a frame of reference for analyzing the case of MuseoTorino, a new city museum realized within the smart city strategy of Turin (Italy). The analysis provides evidence of some practices adopted to leverage collaboration and stakeholders' engagement to strategically address cultural sustainability and to realize it in practice throughout the new service development process.

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Leveraging Smart Open Innovation for Achieving Cultural Sustainability: Learning from a New City Museum Project

Errichiello

Micera

2018

Sustainability

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“…Conservation and preservation of these heritage sites have been considered an important theme in several areas related to smart cities, such as public planning, urban development, sustainable development [119][120][121]. Several authors [106,[122][123][124][125], in different approaches and contexts, have considered the themes present in this guideline to be important for increasing the intelligence of cities.…”

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Smart and Sustainable Cities: The Main Guidelines of City Statute for Increasing the Intelligence of Brazilian Cities

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The regulation of urban property use is a fundamental instrument for the development of cities. However, most of the norms that set general guidelines for urban policy predate the transformations that the smart city concept has brought about in the way cities are appropriated and perceived by society, and even today, studies on how these regulations collaborate to make cities smarter and more sustainable. This work contributes to filling this gap by investigating the main guidelines of the Brazilian City Statute that have the greatest potential to contribute to having smarter and more sustainable Brazilian cities. To prioritize the sixteen guidelines of the City Statute, the methodology used consisted of a survey carried out with professionals working in the concerned field. The results show that the sixteen guidelines were evaluated as important for increasing the intelligence of cities, of which five were evaluated as having the most priority, these five were related to the governance of cities. Considering the scarcity of resources in Brazilian cities, these five guidelines contribute so that municipal governments can direct their efforts towards what has the most priority.

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“…In addition, Powell also explained that culture and values are important components of society, but cultural values are not static; they evolve over time (2009). Culture is about creativity, inheritance, knowledge and diversity, where these values are intrinsically connected with human development and how they maintain their environment (Opoku, 2015).…”

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Cultural contact, cultural values, and education for life and work as predictors of future orientation in the Baduy community

Mulyadi¹,

Prabowo²,

Chrisnatalia³

2019

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2018)

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Future orientation is a cognitive construct that explains the future orientation of individuals, especially the younger generation, to anticipate general events. Because education is responsible for the foundation of a sustainable future in a society, government and society need to prepare their younger generation through formal education. But this is not the case with the Baduy indigenous people. Although the government provides formal education for every ethnic group in Indonesia, the Baduy community rejects it. The cultural values of the society do not provide space for formal education. Customs prohibit formal education, and customary leaders hand out severe punishment to members who violate the prohibition. Education provided by custom is not formal, but is education for life and work. With this education, the Baduy community can survive and at the same time maintain its cultural values. These cultural values can affect future orientation. However, due to population growth, the available land area for farming is limited. As a result of this situation, Baduy people have pushed themselves to make cultural contact with the outside world. The purpose of this study was to examine variables, namely education for life and work, cultural contact, and cultural values as predictors of the future orientation in Baduy's younger generation. This study involved 169 respondents from Baduy's younger generation aged 11-21 years. With a survey research approach, this study uses dual language questionnaires, namely: An Education for Life and Work Scale to measure education for life and work, a Cultural Contact Scale to measure cultural contact, a Cultural Value Scale to measure cultural values, and a Future Orientation Questionnaire to measure future orientation. Result show that three variables were found to have an influence on future orientation (F = 8.935, p <.001). It can be concluded that education for life and work, cultural contact, and cultural values influence the future orientation of Baduy's younger generation. The theoretical and practical implications of this finding are discussed.

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The Role of Culture in a Sustainable Built Environment

Cited by 29 publications

References 6 publications

Leveraging Smart Open Innovation for Achieving Cultural Sustainability: Learning from a New City Museum Project

Leveraging Smart Open Innovation for Achieving Cultural Sustainability: Learning from a New City Museum Project

Smart and Sustainable Cities: The Main Guidelines of City Statute for Increasing the Intelligence of Brazilian Cities

Cultural contact, cultural values, and education for life and work as predictors of future orientation in the Baduy community

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