Livable Cities: Concepts and Role in Improving Health

Lennard, Suzanne H. Crowhurst

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74983-9_4

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“…This reaffirms that the SC concept originated from different ideas and scenarios. Dameri and Cocchia (2013) [4] defended SC as the search for solutions for cyber-physical integration in urban space, with the main objective to promote sustainable development of the cities; the SC tend to open new innovations possibilities in diversified areas, like health, welfare, energetic efficiency and transport [27,32]. Zhuadar et al (2017) [33] conducted a study focused on the next wave of innovation, which combines humans' ability to connect to machines.…”

Section: Understanding Smart Cities' Importancementioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges for Connecting Citizens and Smart Cities: ICT, E-Governance and Blockchain

2020

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The way citizens interact with cities affects overall life quality. Their participation in social decisions is of paramount importance for helping on public decisions that affect governance, regulation and education. This interaction has the potential of being boosted within the scope of smart and digital cities, especially by recent advances in blockchain technology. This work introduces insights about how smart cities’ concepts and innovative technologies can help society to face daily challenges for improving citizens’ awareness. Digital technologies are able to drive social and economic development by employing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to promote innovation. In this context, e-governance, in conjunction with disruptive concepts such as blockchain, is showing up as a fundamental tool for a decentralized democracy. This study reviews, discusses, raises open points and presents suggestions towards an efficient, transparent and sustainable use of technology, applied to future cities.

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Section: Understanding Smart Cities' Importancementioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges for Connecting Citizens and Smart Cities: ICT, E-Governance and Blockchain

2020

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“…As such, this study found that the female group had a higher preference for place vitality. It was believed that the presence of crowds was a safe zone following Jacob’s idea of “eyes on the street” and reassured human interdependence (Lennard and Lennard, 1995). Despite being the least preferred attribute in creative placemaking, place vitality needed to be considered differently regarding user feelings in the area.…”

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The functions of urban design social attributes in creative placemaking: the case of Kuala Lumpur event festivals

Ramli

Ujang

2021

OHI

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Purpose An increasing effort to reinforce cultural and social activities in creative placemaking is observed. Despite extensive previous studies, works of literature ignored the necessary group-specific indicators and processes in creative placemaking. In successful placemaking, the vital attributes of a place as a social platform should be identified and intensified in the initiatives taken. As such, this study aims to examine the functions of urban design social attributes in generating meaningful creative placemaking initiatives. Design/methodology/approach A survey was performed, which involved 340 visitors in the inner city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from one case study (a strategic social event initiative called RIUH) on users’ preference toward the social attributes of place and the factors influencing preference. Field observations were carried out to understand the social activities and pattern of engagement. Findings The preference study revealed that urban design social attributes encompassed the essential inclusiveness, value, diversity and vitality of place because of high preference and a significant difference among groups. Social implications Understanding users’ preferences has emphasized the relevance of each urban design social attribute in accommodating different user opportunity groups, ultimately inducing a positive social impact in creative placemaking. Originality/value This study demonstrated the success of creative placemaking in urban development from the social dimension. It provides an understanding that the priority of creative practices should be redirected toward a more in-depth approach in addressing individuals, social capacity, involvement and well-being through the optimization of benefits and other creative placemaking values.

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“…Scale: while Gehl highlighted the need for human scale in public spaces, to date there has been little agreement on what human scale is. Buildings taller than four (Alexander, 1977) or six storeys (Lennard, Lennard et al, 1987) are considered to be out of human scale. Set back of upper floors in taller buildings is suggested to moderate non-human scale (Hedman & Jaszewski, 1984).…”

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The death and life of Australian suburbs: Relationships between social activity and the physical qualities of Australian suburban neighbourhood centres

Farahani

Izadpanahi

Tucker

2022

City, Culture and Society

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Livable Cities: Concepts and Role in Improving Health

Cited by 13 publications

References 35 publications

Challenges for Connecting Citizens and Smart Cities: ICT, E-Governance and Blockchain

Challenges for Connecting Citizens and Smart Cities: ICT, E-Governance and Blockchain

The functions of urban design social attributes in creative placemaking: the case of Kuala Lumpur event festivals

The death and life of Australian suburbs: Relationships between social activity and the physical qualities of Australian suburban neighbourhood centres

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