Crowdsourcing Urbanism

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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]

Defintions

  • 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

Important Aspects Of Crowdsourcing In Context Of Cities

New Strategies For Improving Cityscapes

Vienna

Vienna's approach to citizen driven reprogramming of urban tissue: Do_It_Yourself_City_Manual

Pro's and Con's

Potentials For Inhabitants

Criticism On Legal Issues

Examples

Guerilla Bike Lanes

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Commuter Buses

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DIY Crosswalks

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MyIdealCity

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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