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July 20, 2011
Investigating Wireless Technology and Urban Design

At EngagingCities, we are always interested in sharing industry findings that document how new technologies are continuously changing the social life of urban public spaces. So, when we stumbled upon this photo essay and research study, we just had to share it with our readers. The study focuses on the relationship between the use of wireless technologies and the tendency for people to minimize exposure to diversity.

At EngagingCities, we are always interested in sharing industry findings that document how new technologies are continuously changing the social life of urban public spaces. So, when we stumbled upon the photo essay and research study, The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces, we just had to share it with our readers.

December 16, 2010
Crowd-sourced and co-designed: experiments in urban social innovation

From online volunteering to open governance, the mainstreaming not only of Web 2.0 technologies but of the very values that underpin the ‘social web’ is having powerful effects on the way urban livability and social welfare are now engaged with and negotiated by diverse actors. As part of this movement, what I refer to as ‘place-based creative problem-solving’ (PBCPS) is empowering residents to become decision-makers over their own environment, creating enabling frameworks for urban participation both in the public sphere and at the institutional level.