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]
Contents
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
Examples
DIY City Manual
Vienna's approach to citizen driven reprogramming of urban tissue: Do_It_Yourself_City_Manual
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.
