Abstract
Urban planning under the current rapidly changing conditions requires holistic understanding of the planning ecosystem. Sustainable communities cannot be planned in silos, but ask for systems thinking, collaborative methods, and knowledge management. Smart city planning, or "expanded urban planning", practices are developed for framing cities from a holistic and integrative perspective as a multi-scalar and multi-dimensional endeavor. The aim of this article is to describe and discuss knowledge creation and situation awareness in collaborative urban planning practice, and the question of how digitalization changes it. These subjects are approached through a case study on an urban planning process in the metropolitan area of Helsinki, Finland. Through empirical findings, this article argues that smart city planning is not only a data-driven superlinear scaling practice, but an integrative and collaborative learning process facilitated by face-to-face interaction and advanced analyses and visualizations of available data, ongoing processes, and local history and stories.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CUPUM 2015 - 14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management |
Publisher | CUPUM |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780692474341 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2015 |
MoE publication type | A4 Conference publication |
Event | International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management - Cambridge, United States Duration: 7 Jul 2015 → 10 Jul 2015 Conference number: 14 |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management |
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Abbreviated title | CUPUM |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Cambridge |
Period | 07/07/2015 → 10/07/2015 |