Category: Social science

Mapping of 15-Minute City Practices

Post author By Jorge Salgado
Post date 23/05/2024
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According to the University College of Estate Management (UCEM, 2024), the concept of the 15-minute city was revitalized in 2016 by researcher and professor Carlos Moreno and received considerable attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Presently, urban planners globally are implementing this model, awakening an intense debate in favor and against it. This concept traces its origins to Ebenezer Howard’s work, ‘Garden Cities of Tomorrow,’ published in 1902, and is further developed through Clarence Perry’s notion of the Neighborhood Unit in the 1920s, which aimed to create self-sufficient neighborhoods.

The Driving Urban Transition (DUT) Partnership recently released a report titled “Mapping of 15-Minute City Practices”, providing an exhaustive overview of the 15-minute city framework, supplemented by case studies from 100 cities. This report focuses on enhancing urban life locally through improvements in mobility, urban planning, logistics, and governance. It underscores a significant adoption of the framework, particularly in Europe, and emphasizes the critical role of social inclusion and innovative strategies.

Full details and further insights are available in the complete publication:

https://dutpartnership.eu/news/new-publication-mapping-of-15-minute-city-practices

To check the research of Carlos Moreno, follow this link:

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Made in OpenAI, prompt: Jorge Salgado.

References:

University College of Estate Management (UCEM, 2024). A guide to 15-minute cities: why are they so controversial? https://www.ucem.ac.uk/whats-happening/articles/15-minute-city/

Tags 15minute, cities, planning, URBAN

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Handbook on cities and networks

Post author By Céline Rozenblat
Post date 14/08/2021
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Edited by Zachary P. Neal, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, US and Céline Rozenblat, Professor of Urban Geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment,Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Publication Date: 2021 ISBN: 978 1 78811 470 7 Extent: 672 pp

‘If you want to understand cities – the innovation and dynamism they generate and the way they sort and segregate people by class, race and other dimensions – you have to start by understanding that cities are networks. Zachary Neal and Céline Rozenblat have done all of us who care about cities a great service by pulling together the very best and brightest thinkers on cities and networks in this terrific volume.’
– Richard Florida, University of Toronto, US and author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis

This Handbook of Cities and Networks provides a cutting-edge overview of research on how economic, social and transportation networks affect processes both in and between cities. Exploring the ways in which cities connect and intertwine, it offers a varied set of collaborations, highlighting different theoretical, historical and methodological perspectives.

International contributions assess the state of the field of network analysis, presenting interdisciplinary insights that draw on theory from geography, economics, sociology, history, archaeology and psychology, and outlining methodological tools that include ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative approaches. Illustrating a framework for integrating the diversity of urban networks, the Handbook demonstrates that by exploring urban networks with different combinations of levels and scales, new insights and opportunities can emerge.

Featuring focused studies on specific regions and cities, this state-of-the-art Handbook is essential reading for scholars and researchers of urban studies and regional science, particularly those focusing on the transformation of cities as connected spaces through intracity and intercity networks. Its core theoretical insights will also benefit graduate students in urban studies and network analysis.

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Do Big Data tell the whole story? Integrating quantitative sources with “thick” data

Post author By Andrea Ferloni
Post date 02/06/2020
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In the past decade, increased digitalization and smartphone ownership have contributed to generate a huge growth in the amount of data that are produced, stocked and manipulated in order to create insights for firms and public institutions. The COVID-19 pandemic, for example, proved once more the strategic interest of big data to make sense of the number of infected people, deaths, recoveries, and tracking possible avenues of contagion by mobile apps.

Yet even if big data are very important, do they tell us the whole story? Do smaller but much deeper samples of qualitative data have the potential to tell us a different part of the story and usefully complement them?

This is precisely the proposal that Tricia Wang explains in this article and in this TED talk. During her ethnographic work in China, which included working as a street vendor, and while she was working at Nokia in 2009, Tricia came to realize that developing countries represented a promising market for cheap smartphone diffusion. Yet, Nokia decided not to trust her insights because they were not backed by big numbers. The figures they had told them to try and continue to compete with higher-end smartphone manufacturers. Nokia virtually disappeared from the market in the following years following acquisition by Microsoft, possibly because, as Tricia recalls, “What is measurable isn’t the same as what is valuable”.

In an era in which increased importance is attached to big data, Tricia’s story reminds us not to blindly trust the power of algorithms, and that combining different research methodologies can sometimes yield much deeper and “thicker” results: don’t trade human insights for big data, combine them!

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CCS’15 & CS-DC’15 – Watching again the E-Session on Territorial Intelligence for Multi-level Equity and Sustainability

For those who missed the session Territorial Intelligence for Multi-level Equity and Sustainability, you can visualize online individually each presentation :

Denise Pumain, University Paris 1. ERC GeodiverCity (Keynote Speaker – Conference CS-DC)

World Urban Dynamics and climate change toward territorial intelligence for ensuring sustainability and equity by multi-level governance

Panos Argyrakis, University of Thessaloniki

Comparison of single and multiplex patent networks

Celine Rozenblat, Antoine Bellwald, University of Lausanne

Self reinforcement between urban firm’s networks at local and global scale: Comparison of single and multiplex patent networks

Elfie Swerts, ERC GeodiverCity

Scaling laws in Chinese urban system in light of harmonized data

Olivier Finance, University Paris 1 – CNRS

Scaling laws to explore innovative behavior of transnational investment

Paul Chapron, ERC GeodiverCity

Building and exploring systems of cities models via high performance computing.