Crowdsourcing Urbanism

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For informations on citizen-financed urbanism, see Crowdfunding Urbanism.

Introduction on Crowdsourcing [1]

Crowdsourcing urban planning puts the future of cities into the hands of the people in all sorts of unexpected ways, from custom-designing new downtown districts to identifying problem areas for cyclists and pedestrians. [2]

Definitions

  • Urban planning
  • Urbanism
  • Participatory processes
  • User generated content
  • Outsourcing

Theory

  • Process of self-renewal
  • importance of the internet in terms of exchanging ideas (social media, globilisation)

Methods

  • New strategies for improving cityscapes
  • User groups

Examples

Do It Yourself City Manual

The Do It Yourself City Manual is a small booklet that covers a wide range of participatory urban project examples in the context of Vienna. It gives an overview on legal regulations, issues and possibilities concerning interventions and city reprogramming.

Guerilla Bike Lanes

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Commuter Buses

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DIY Crosswalks

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MyIdealCity

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Controversies

  • Architectural design competitions -> example: Guggenheim Helsinki (estimated over 300 years of a working life spent in total)

Potentials

Literature

  • Neuhaus, Fabian (Ed.): Studies in Temporal Urbanism. The urbanTick Experiment, 2011, ISBN 978-94-007-0937-9.
  • Jeffrey Hou, Benjamin Spencer, Thaisa Way,Ken Yocom (Ed.): Now Urbanism: The Future City is Here, 2014, ISBN: 978-0415717861.

References

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing
  2. http://weburbanist.com/2014/03/05/crowdsourced-city-14-citizen-directed-urban-projects/
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncxP6pJPK3s