This paper studies smart cities as the metrics of future internet-based developments and the rene... more This paper studies smart cities as the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation. It fills a gap that has opened up in the literature currently available on smart cities and around the metrics of future internet-based developments. That gap, which has opened up in studies of smart cities around the metrics of future internet-based developments and that relate to the informatics of the computer science, which underpin digital infrastructures, support data management platforms and set the stage for renewable energies. It achieves this by presenting the findings of a case study on future internet-based developments and accounting for how the informatics of computer science and digital infrastructures of data management platforms set the stage for renewable energies and way this energetic plays out as the renewables of an urban and regional innovation. The case study is drawn from the Hackbridge project in the London Borough of Sutton and serves to demonstrate how accounting for the metrics of future Internet-based developments does matter. Does matter in the sense which the case study serves to demonstrate that merely being able to relate the informatics of computer science to the digital infrastructures of data management platforms is not enough. Not enough because it is only in bottoming out how the informatics of computer science relate to the digital infrastructures of data management platforms as part of a material stock and flow analysis, that it becomes possible to account for the energetic of the renewables and contribution which the installation of them into buildings does to sustain the growth of an urban and regional innovation whose ecological modernisation adapts to climate change.
The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, 2011
Previous evidence-based reviews of neighbourhood renewal have suggested,'learning from what ... more Previous evidence-based reviews of neighbourhood renewal have suggested,'learning from what works' provides the means to close the skills gap and raise competencies of the core occupations responsible for the development of sustainable communities. The common thread running through all these reviews, be they governmental, academic, or professional, is their perception of the problem (the skills shortage) and the solution (closing the gap between skills needed and competencies required). Working within this shared perception ...
Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies book series, Nov 2, 2011
Focusing on a subset of European cities belonging to the SmartCities (inter) Regional Academic Ne... more Focusing on a subset of European cities belonging to the SmartCities (inter) Regional Academic Network (SCRAN), i.e. Bremerhaven,
In drawing attention to Mitchell et al.'s (1995) and May et al.&#x27... more In drawing attention to Mitchell et al.'s (1995) and May et al.'s (1997) environmental assessment, Cooper (1997) proposes that if we are to bridge the gap between buildings and cities and evaluate the sustainability of urban development, it will be necessary to compile an extensive list of environmental assessment methods: a list of methods able to operate at various levels of assessment-from building to city scale-and not just with the environmental, but also the economic and social issues underlying the evaluation process (see also ...
1. Introduction Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell Part 1: The Toolkit 2. The Toolkit for ... more 1. Introduction Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell Part 1: The Toolkit 2. The Toolkit for Assessment Andy Hamilton, Steve Curwell, Gordon Mitchell and Philip James Part 2: Assessment 3. Scenario analysis in spatial impact assessment Francesca Torrieri and Peter Nijkamp 4. Multi-criteria evaluation and planning support: choosing among alternative scenarios Andrea de Montis and Sabrina Lai 5. Mixed and compact land use assessments Ron Vreeker 6. SMARTNET: a system for multi-criteria appraisal of road transport networks Gordon Mitchell and Anil Namdeo 7. The NAR model of land use and buildings Mark Deakin 8. The building passport assessment Andreas Blum 9. The European HQE^2R sustainable neighbourhood assessment Andreas Blum, Marcus Grant, Antonella Grossi 10. The REGEN Assessment of the Porta Nuova District's Central Railway Station Patrizia Lombardi 11. Assessment methods underlying the planning and development of Modena City's CSR Patrizia Lombardi and Stefano Stanghellini Part 3: Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Development 12. The search for sustainable communities: ecological integrity, equity and the question of participation Mark Deakin 13. Governing the Sustainable of Urban Development Krassimira Paskaleva-Shapira 14. Conclusions Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell
The international journal of interdisciplinary social sciences, 2008
It is generally recognised that past interventions to combat area-based deprivation have proven t... more It is generally recognised that past interventions to combat area-based deprivation have proven to be far too piece-meal, lacking the integrity which is needed for cities to tackle the poverty and social exclusion experienced by large urban distressed areas (LUDAs). This ...
This document is a Subject Benchmark Statement for Land, Construction, Real Estate and Surveying ... more This document is a Subject Benchmark Statement for Land, Construction, Real Estate and Surveying that defines what can be expected of graduates in the subjects, in terms of what they might know, do and understand at the end of their studies.
This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which... more This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some of the foundational assumptions underpinning transition management and system innovation research, human geography, spatial planning, and critical urban scholarship. This interdisciplinary theoretical formulation details our evidence-based interpretation of how smart city transitions should be conceptualized and enacted in order to overcome the oversimplification fallacy resulting from corporate discourses on smart urbanism. By offering a broad and realistic understanding of smart city transitions, the proposed theory combines different smart-city-related concepts in a model which attempts to expose what causal mechanisms surface in sustainable smart city transitions and to guide empirical inquiry in smart city research. Together with all the authors contributing to this Special Issue, our objective is to give smart city research more robust scientific foundations and to generate theoretical propositions upon which subsequent large-scale empirical testing can be conducted. With the proposed middle-range theory, different empirical settings can be investigated by using the same analytical elements, facilitating the cross-case analysis and synthesis of the systematic research efforts which are progressively contributing to shedding light on the assemblage of sustainable smart city transitions.
This paper studies smart cities as the metrics of future internet-based developments and the rene... more This paper studies smart cities as the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation. It fills a gap that has opened up in the literature currently available on smart cities and around the metrics of future internet-based developments. That gap, which has opened up in studies of smart cities around the metrics of future internet-based developments and that relate to the informatics of the computer science, which underpin digital infrastructures, support data management platforms and set the stage for renewable energies. It achieves this by presenting the findings of a case study on future internet-based developments and accounting for how the informatics of computer science and digital infrastructures of data management platforms set the stage for renewable energies and way this energetic plays out as the renewables of an urban and regional innovation. The case study is drawn from the Hackbridge project in the London Borough of Sutton and serves to demonstrate how accounting for the metrics of future Internet-based developments does matter. Does matter in the sense which the case study serves to demonstrate that merely being able to relate the informatics of computer science to the digital infrastructures of data management platforms is not enough. Not enough because it is only in bottoming out how the informatics of computer science relate to the digital infrastructures of data management platforms as part of a material stock and flow analysis, that it becomes possible to account for the energetic of the renewables and contribution which the installation of them into buildings does to sustain the growth of an urban and regional innovation whose ecological modernisation adapts to climate change.
The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, 2011
Previous evidence-based reviews of neighbourhood renewal have suggested,'learning from what ... more Previous evidence-based reviews of neighbourhood renewal have suggested,'learning from what works' provides the means to close the skills gap and raise competencies of the core occupations responsible for the development of sustainable communities. The common thread running through all these reviews, be they governmental, academic, or professional, is their perception of the problem (the skills shortage) and the solution (closing the gap between skills needed and competencies required). Working within this shared perception ...
Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies book series, Nov 2, 2011
Focusing on a subset of European cities belonging to the SmartCities (inter) Regional Academic Ne... more Focusing on a subset of European cities belonging to the SmartCities (inter) Regional Academic Network (SCRAN), i.e. Bremerhaven,
In drawing attention to Mitchell et al.'s (1995) and May et al.&#x27... more In drawing attention to Mitchell et al.'s (1995) and May et al.'s (1997) environmental assessment, Cooper (1997) proposes that if we are to bridge the gap between buildings and cities and evaluate the sustainability of urban development, it will be necessary to compile an extensive list of environmental assessment methods: a list of methods able to operate at various levels of assessment-from building to city scale-and not just with the environmental, but also the economic and social issues underlying the evaluation process (see also ...
1. Introduction Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell Part 1: The Toolkit 2. The Toolkit for ... more 1. Introduction Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell Part 1: The Toolkit 2. The Toolkit for Assessment Andy Hamilton, Steve Curwell, Gordon Mitchell and Philip James Part 2: Assessment 3. Scenario analysis in spatial impact assessment Francesca Torrieri and Peter Nijkamp 4. Multi-criteria evaluation and planning support: choosing among alternative scenarios Andrea de Montis and Sabrina Lai 5. Mixed and compact land use assessments Ron Vreeker 6. SMARTNET: a system for multi-criteria appraisal of road transport networks Gordon Mitchell and Anil Namdeo 7. The NAR model of land use and buildings Mark Deakin 8. The building passport assessment Andreas Blum 9. The European HQE^2R sustainable neighbourhood assessment Andreas Blum, Marcus Grant, Antonella Grossi 10. The REGEN Assessment of the Porta Nuova District's Central Railway Station Patrizia Lombardi 11. Assessment methods underlying the planning and development of Modena City's CSR Patrizia Lombardi and Stefano Stanghellini Part 3: Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Development 12. The search for sustainable communities: ecological integrity, equity and the question of participation Mark Deakin 13. Governing the Sustainable of Urban Development Krassimira Paskaleva-Shapira 14. Conclusions Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell
The international journal of interdisciplinary social sciences, 2008
It is generally recognised that past interventions to combat area-based deprivation have proven t... more It is generally recognised that past interventions to combat area-based deprivation have proven to be far too piece-meal, lacking the integrity which is needed for cities to tackle the poverty and social exclusion experienced by large urban distressed areas (LUDAs). This ...
This document is a Subject Benchmark Statement for Land, Construction, Real Estate and Surveying ... more This document is a Subject Benchmark Statement for Land, Construction, Real Estate and Surveying that defines what can be expected of graduates in the subjects, in terms of what they might know, do and understand at the end of their studies.
This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which... more This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some of the foundational assumptions underpinning transition management and system innovation research, human geography, spatial planning, and critical urban scholarship. This interdisciplinary theoretical formulation details our evidence-based interpretation of how smart city transitions should be conceptualized and enacted in order to overcome the oversimplification fallacy resulting from corporate discourses on smart urbanism. By offering a broad and realistic understanding of smart city transitions, the proposed theory combines different smart-city-related concepts in a model which attempts to expose what causal mechanisms surface in sustainable smart city transitions and to guide empirical inquiry in smart city research. Together with all the authors contributing to this Special Issue, our objective is to give smart city research more robust scientific foundations and to generate theoretical propositions upon which subsequent large-scale empirical testing can be conducted. With the proposed middle-range theory, different empirical settings can be investigated by using the same analytical elements, facilitating the cross-case analysis and synthesis of the systematic research efforts which are progressively contributing to shedding light on the assemblage of sustainable smart city transitions.
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