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'''Do It Yourself City Manual'''
 
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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.<br>
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'''Guerilla Bike Lanes'''
 
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'''DIY Crosswalks'''
 
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'''MyIdealCity'''
 
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==Controversies==
 
==Controversies==

Revision as of 09:34, 16 December 2014

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 Text Text Text [3]

Commuter Buses Text Text Text

DIY Crosswalks Text Text Text

MyIdealCity Text Text Text

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