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- Brain, David
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Reconstituting the Urban Commons : Public Space, Social Capital and the Project of Urbanism
- 2019
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Ingår i: Urban Planning. - : COGITATIO PRESS. - 2183-7635. ; 4:2, s. 169-182
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article outlines a framework for connecting design-oriented research on accommodating and encouraging social interaction in public space with investigation of broader questions regarding civic engagement, social justice and democratic governance. How can we define the "kind of problem a city is" (Jacobs, 1961), simultaneously attending to the social processes at stake in urban places, the spatial ordering of urban form and the construction of the forms of agency that enable us to make better places on purpose? How can empirical research be connected more systematically to theories of democratic governance, with clear implications for urban design, urban and regional planning as professional practice? This framework connects three distinct theoretical moves: (1) understanding the sociological implications of public space as an urban commons, (2) connecting the making of public space to research on social capital and collective efficacy, and (3) understanding recent tendencies in the discipline of urban design in terms of the social construction of a "program of action" (Latour, 1992) at the heart of the professional practices relevant to the built environment.
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- Lindberg, Malin, Professor, 1978-, et al.
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Place Innovative Synergies for City Center Attractiveness : A Matter of Experiencing Retail and Retailing Experiences
- 2019
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Ingår i: Urban Planning. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-7635. ; 04:01, s. 91-105
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By investigating the occurrence of place innovative synergies between retail and tourism in a small-sized Swedish city, this article advances knowledge on how city center attractiveness can be enforced in a rural context with competing online shopping and suburban/out-of-town shopping centers. Previous studies of city center attractiveness, place innovation, and social innovation help distinguish innovative intertwinement of correlated trends of experiencing retail and retailing experiences, augmenting customer experiences through place-based characteristics. Interviews, workshops, and participatory observations with entrepreneurs, business promoters, and municipality representatives reveal three dimensions of place innovative synergies in city center attractiveness: 1) innovative variance in city center retail and tourism, 2) innovative interwovenness between the city center identity and its configuration, content, and communication, and 3) innovative interaction between retailers and tourism entrepreneurs in city center events. A key question is whether synergies in temporal events and everyday commerce are sufficiently combined, in order to engender encompassing renewal.
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- Mehaffy, Michael W., et al.
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Public space in the new urban agenda : Research into implementation
- 2019
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Ingår i: Urban Planning. - : Cogitatio Press. - 2183-7635. ; 4:2, s. 134-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The New Urban Agenda is a landmark international framework for urbanisation for the next two decades, adopted by acclamation by all 193 countries of the United Nations. Nonetheless, implementation remains an enormous challenge, as does the related need for research evidence to inform practice. This thematic issue brings together research from a number of participants of the Future of Places conference series, contributing new research to inform the development and implementation of the New Urban Agenda, and with a focus on the fundamental topic of public space creation and improvement.
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