Overview
- Synthesises two emerging topics: smart cities and open data
- Presents an unconventional and innovative perspective on collaborative urban economies
- Links open data with social aspirations such as urban inclusion and participation
- Addresses three types of data: crowd sourced data, data compiled by businesses into online databases, and data released in an open format by government agencies
- Identifies the challenges of applying open data in an urban context. Provides tools, clear examples and case studies for others to follow, envisaging solutions for the use of complex, large data sets
Buy print copy
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Table of contents (18 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Urban Inclusion and Social Entrepreneurship
-
Front Matter
-
-
Knowledge Ecosystems and Resilience
-
Front Matter
-
-
Civic Innovation and Transparency
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
- Open Data
- Open cities
- Just cities
- Resilient cities
- Ethical cities
- Smart cities
- Urban design
- Architecture
- collaborative cities
- transparent cities
- adaptive cities
- sustainable cities
- Sustainability
- urban planning
- International Open Data Charter
- Open Data Institute
- urban geography and urbanism
- remote sensing/photogrammetry
About this book
This book argues that those who contribute urban data should benefit from its production. Like the city itself, the information landscape is a public asset produced through collective effort, attention, and resources. People produce data through their engagement with the city, creating digital footprints through social medial, mobility applications, and city sensors. By opening up data there is potential to generate greater value by supporting unforeseen collaborations, spontaneous urban innovations and solutions, and improved decision-making insights. Yet achieving more open cities is made challenging by conflicting desires for urban anonymity, sociability, privacy and transparency. This book engages with these issues through a variety of critical perspectives, and presents strategies, tools and case studies that enable this transformation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Hoon Han is an Associate Professor and Co-convenor of Smart Cities Research Cluster in the Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. His research interests are on geographic and temporal changes in urban form as well as urban technologies, in particular the dynamic changes occurring in response to technology implementation and adaptation in smart cities. This research involvesthe impact of new digital technologies (e.g., the Internet of Things (IoTs) and Big Data) on human well-being, perceptions and adaptive behaviours.
Professor Chris Pettit is closely involved with a number of professional organisations and international initiatives. He is a past Director and Chair of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) and is a member the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA). He is a board member of the International advisory board for the “Geo for All” initiative. He is Chair of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Technical Commission II Working Group on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality and Co-Chair of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) International Interest Group on Urban Quality of Life Indicators. More recently, working with NASA he has established the OSGeo OpenCitySmart initiative which is looking at fostering an international community in the development of CitySmart applications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Open Cities | Open Data
Book Subtitle: Collaborative Cities in the Information Era
Editors: Scott Hawken, Hoon Han, Christopher Pettit
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6605-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6604-8Published: 28 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6607-9Published: 22 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6605-5Published: 26 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLII, 418
Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography, Big Data, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry