This article contributes to the emerging body of urban digitalisation scholarship concerned
with alternative practices at the grassroots level by reviewing and structuring the literature in …

This paper focuses on the importance of framing and conceiving smart urban initiatives and
schemes in a highly context-sensitive way, and argues that place-based approaches are …

HCI and design research has turned toward exploring methods, technologies, processes for
societal impact, and do so by intervening in the real world and designing for, with and by …

Social media has recently become a networked public sphere for social interactions and
power struggles in planning practice. However, little research has been done to understand …

Traditional urban planning projects require considerable time, political buy-in, and capital.
Conversely, small-scale urban interventions can be executed quickly and inexpensively …

Globally, smart cities attract billions of dollars in investment annually, with related market
opportunities forecast to grow year-on-year. The enormous resources poured into their …

Grassroots, bottom-up citizen science is a burgeoning form of public engagement with
science, in which citizens mobilize scientific data to address local and global concerns …

The Covid19-pandemic has accelerated processes in which digital platforms, privileged by
their critical size, become central instances of urban life. While most scholars associate …

Corporate and government officials as well as social scientists studying smart cities are
exploring gamification to help stakeholders engage with complex technological and societal …

Initiatives in the sharing economy started to emerge in the Netherlands at the beginning of
the 2010s, making the country one of the world's pioneers. At the beginning of the 2010s …