Citizen repertoires of smart urban safety: Perspectives from Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Butot, Vivien; Bayerl, Petra Saskia; Jacobs, Gabriele; Haan, Freek de

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“…Examples include visual and verbal vignettes based on different kinds of surveillance technologies (Mariën and Poels 2020) or scenarios of smart city futures (Butot et al 2020;Jameson, Richter, and Taylor 2019), gamified surveys challenging players to identify surveillant objects in a virtual smart city (Rijshouwer, Leclercq, and van Zoonen 2022), and escape rooms with surveillance storylines (Kihara, Lomas, and Bendor 2019). Although these studies have slightly different epistemological approaches to the phenomenon of "subjective experience," all highlight feelings of exposure to smart city surveillance, which is experienced as opaque in its functioning (Butot et al 2020;Jameson, Richter, and Taylor 2019;Rijshouwer, Leclercq, and van Zoonen 2022;Mariën and Poels 2020). To make sense of their uncertainties about surveillance, people differentiate between "personal" and "impersonal" data, public and private actors, and the purposes behind data collection ( Van Zoonen 2016;Mariën and Poels 2020).…”

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“…However, results across the studies also suggest that such cognitive assessments of smart city technologies are not made in everyday life, and that most people seem to reluctantly accept surveillance because it is too pervasive to consciously reflect on all the time. With an eye on future developments, people see invasive smart city surveillance scenarios as inevitabilities regardless of their values, preferences, and priorities (Butot et al 2020;Rijshouwer, Leclercq, and van Zoonen 2022). These results can be compared against research highlighting a "privacy paradox," where people's statements about valuing privacy are incongruous with their disclosure of personal information (Acquisti and Grossklags 2003).…”

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Making Smart Things Strange Again: Using Walking as a Method for Studying Subjective Experiences of Smart City Surveillance

Butot

Jacobs

Bayerl

et al. 2023

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Smart cities are commonly seen as places that are defined by surveillance because of their reliance on vast amounts of digital data to improve urban management challenges. Although the infrastructures and technologies that enable smart city surveillance pervade multitudinous urban spaces and everyday practices, they are often “hiding in plain sight,” going unnoticed in the bustle of everyday life. Hence, fostering research settings where citizens can productively reflect on their everyday surveillance constitutes a major challenge for the interrelated projects of doing empirical research about subjective experiences of smart city surveillance and the inclusion of citizens in smart city discussions. Drawing on walking as a method, this study attempts to meet this challenge by developing and empirically testing a methodology of purposive “data walking.” Situating the research in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, participants are instructed to identify data points for public safety purposes on a short walk through the city and reflect on their experiences. Observations and experiences of smart city surveillance are documented with photos, text descriptions, and audio notes, which are shared in real-time with researchers and provide the basis for group reflections. These walks and reflections generate rich visual and textual data that yield insights into embodied and situated constructions of smart city surveillance as an object of subjective inquiry, experiences of visibility, considerations of agency and evaluations of public safety implications. The study considers these empirical results in conjunction with reflections on the methodology, contributing to further methodological explorations for including citizens in smart city discussions and surveillance subjectivity research.

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Making Smart Things Strange Again: Using Walking as a Method for Studying Subjective Experiences of Smart City Surveillance

Butot

Jacobs

Bayerl

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“…As an example of the first step in this direction, he describes linking a semantic 3D city model with real-time IoT sensors. Detailed semantic 3D city models enriched with thematic and real-time information are the backbone of Urban Digital Twins, which have already been implemented in cities like Helsinki (Ruohomäki et al, 2018), Rotterdam (Butot et al, 2020), Zurich (Schrotter & Hürzeler, 2020), Singapore (Niculescu & Wadhwa, 2015) and Atlanta with a special focus on human-infrastructure-technology interactions (Mohammadi & Taylor, 2017).…”

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Managing Urban Digital Twins With an Extended Catalog Service

Knezevic

Donaubauer²,

Moshrefzadeh³

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ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. A city is a complex system and involves many stakeholders with different interests and information about the physical city objects. Information integration from distributed sources is therefore a common challenge in many Smart City projects, as well as in projects for setting up Urban Digital Twins (UDT). In the context of distributed data infrastructures, catalog systems provide a significant contribution to solving the data integration challenge. However, neither existing catalogs for managing urban data nor catalogs used in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) are tailored for managing UDTs. In response to this gap, our research focuses on the development of an extended catalog service including a metadata model specifically designed to manage distributed UDTs. The requirements for the metadata model and the functionality of the catalog were obtained from several smart city projects. As a proof of concept, the paper shows how the catalog implemented on the basis of the CKAN software package is used for managing the UDT of an urban redevelopment project in the city of Munich, Germany.

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“…The notion of digital society proposes that network infrastructures, as well as information and communication technologies (ICTs), are capable of generating a large amount of data (Butot et al, 2020) and facilitating development processes. Therefore, they can be used to provide solutions to social, economic, urban and territorial challenges (Townsend, 2013) , which guide the progress and growth of cities.…”

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“…Although the impact of the digital society on the structure of cities has been an area of interest in academia in recent years, (Batty et al, 2012;Butot et al, 2020;Elias B., 2020;Reddy & Reinartz, 2017;Ricaurte-Quijano et al, 2017;Townsend, 2013) it has not been widely explored from perspectives of urban characterization through multivariate statistical methods. In previous researches on urban issues and mobility, characterization methodologies have been developed using multivariate analysis that have ignored issues related to the digital society.…”

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Digital society as a determining factor in mobility, urban dynamics and current cities structure

Luna¹

2021

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The development and evolution of the digital society has brought about relevant changes in the way people experience the city today. In particular, its impact on mobility patterns is evident, especially in the Post-COVID-19 society, where it is possible to access different types of daily activities online (e.g. working, shopping, training, etc.). At the same time, this digital era brings with it new challenges for urban and transport planning, in which information and communication technologies (ICT) can play a relevant role as transformers of traditional urban structures. For this reason, studying and understanding how the digital society is transforming current cities is important and necessary to optimize planning patterns/guidelines and achieve more sustainable and inclusive cities.To address this challenge, this project has implemented multivariate statistical techniques to characterize the city of Madrid (Spain) at urban level, in order to detect the impact of ICTs on the current urban structure of the city. The methodology incorporated both factorial and cluster analysis with spatial restriction, based on a set of starting indicators referring to urban equipment, demography, socioeconomics, transportation, as well as variables of the digital society (e.g., electronic mailboxes-online commerce, free public and commercial Wi-Fi points, etc.).The results, among other things, show an optimal classification grouping, as well as the way it was obtained. In this case, the optimal classification grouping is the one conformed by 6 clusters, in which different relationships were detected between the space built, the equipment and aspects of the digital society such as online shopping and the proximity to transport equipment public and physical commerce. These results support a growing influence of the digital society in the urban characterization, suggesting the need to translate this influence into effective planning criteria.

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Citizen repertoires of smart urban safety: Perspectives from Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Cited by 25 publications

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Making Smart Things Strange Again: Using Walking as a Method for Studying Subjective Experiences of Smart City Surveillance

Making Smart Things Strange Again: Using Walking as a Method for Studying Subjective Experiences of Smart City Surveillance

Managing Urban Digital Twins With an Extended Catalog Service

Digital society as a determining factor in mobility, urban dynamics and current cities structure

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