Reusing Dublin: evaluating the utility of a crowd-sourced / web mapping tool for addressing underutilization of spaces in Dublin
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2016
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Global trends such as recession (UN, 2013), climate change (IPCC, 2013), urbanization and population growth and migration, as well as increased demands on food, shelter and security (UN, 2013) are causing many economic, social and environmental problems in cities. The challenge for planners is to provide suitable, effective and timely solutions to these problems with tools to support more proactive decision making and ensure urban resilience. However, interdisciplinary exploration between resilience thinking and planning theory and practice is in its infancy (Wilkinson 2012); similarly, the application of geospatial information and communication technologies (G-ICT) to building urban resilience has been only sporadic. While literature on resilience recognizes the need for socially robust data which is locally embedded, historical and socially contingent (Weichselgartner and Kasperson, 2010), the practical examples are lacking. In addition to traditional geographic information systems (GIS) and decision support and visualisation tools, crowd sourcing, locative social media, geotagging, and geospatial analytics carry the potential to aid the planning process. Once adjusted to fit the needs of planning practice, these tools can empower a city with knowledge and intelligence by helping to identify relevant patterns and relationships and enabling citizens and planners in the process (Steenbrugen et al, 2014). This paper / presentation focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of a prototype crowd-sourcing and web mapping application Reusing Dublin for inventory and communication about underutilized urban spaces in Dublin, Ireland.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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