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People as planners: Stakeholder participation in the street experimentation process using a virtual urban living lab

Journal of Urban Mobility, 2023
The creation and design of intervention for street experimentation is in itself a key challenge in sustainable urban mobility to effectively encourage a modal shift from high car dependence to more active, non-polluting modes of transport.
Karyn Scerri, Maria Attard
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Experimenting urban living lab methodology on circular economy co-design activities in some Italian urban territories

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
The Urban Living Lab (ULL) is both a methodology and a place where different actors of a territory can collaborate with the aim of urban transformation and sustainable development.
Carolina Innella, Grazia Barberio, Claudia Brunori, Francesca Cappellaro, Anna Rita Ceddia, Rocco Civita, Salvatore Dimatteo, Marco Ferraris, Rocco Pentassuglia, Luigi Sciubba   +9 more
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Cycling towards sustainability: The transformative potential of urban design thinking in a sustainable living lab

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021
The recent proliferation of Sustainable Living Labs as experimental arenas within and through which contemporary cities try to tackle today’s sustainability challenges, has led to a systematic integration of user’s consideration in the design and testing
Julian Alexandrakis
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Activities, Housing Situation and Other Factors Influencing Psychological Strain Experienced During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Switzerland

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis and the corresponding first nationwide lockdown from mid-March to 10 May 2020 engendered considerable psychological strain among people in Switzerland. This study analyzes determinants of changes
Ralph Hansmann, Ralph Hansmann, Livia Fritz, Anna Pagani, Garance Clément, Claudia R. Binder   +5 more
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Defining and assessing the transformational nature of smart city governance: Insights from four European cases [PDF]

, 2020
Smart cities are a new approach to urban development based on the extensive use of information and communication technologies and on the promotion of environmental sustainability, economic development and innovation.
Nesti, Giorgia
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Between the Unstoppable and the Feasible: The Lucid Pragmatism of Transition Processes for Sustainable Urban Mobility: A Literature Review

Future Transportation, 2022
This article presents a literature review of Transition Experiments applied to the Sustainable Urban Mobility context from a critical and operative point of view.
Filipa Corais, Miguel Bandeira, Cecília Silva, Luís Bragança   +3 more
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Urban Living Labs: Towards an Integrated Understanding of their Key Components

Technology Innovation Management Review, 2019
In today’s ongoing urbanization and escalating climate change, there is an increasing demand on cities to be innovative and inclusive to handle these emerging issues.
Diana Chronéer, Anna Ståhlbröst, Abdolrasoul Habibipour   +2 more
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Civic Engagement in a Citizen-Led Living Lab for Smart Cities: Evidence From South Korea

Urban Planning, 2023
Smart cities have emerged in the hope of solving growing urban problems. In addition, unlike past citizen participation in tokenism, new technologies in smart cities have shed light on creating cities with high levels of civic engagement.
Jooho Park, Sayaka Fujii
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Key indicators and variables in citizen science for the water-food-energy Nexus analysis in Tulcea case study [PDF]

Scientific Annals of the Danube Delta Institute, 2020
This study presents the first results from the activities carried out within the BELMONT project - Creating Interfaces (Building capacity for integrated governance at the Food-WaterEnergy-nexus in cities on the water), more precisely from the ...
NICHERSU Iulian, NICHERSU Iuliana, BALAICAN Dragos, CIOBANESCU Ariadna, BRATFANOF Edward   +4 more
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Experimentation Platforms as Bridges to Urban Sustainability

Smart Cities, 2021
Despite immense efforts to realize diverse visions of the ‘smart city,’ municipalities still face manifold uncertainties of how governance and the tools of governance can best support public and regional value creation for achieving urban sustainability.
Sven-Volker Rehm, Shane McLoughlin, Giovanni Maccani   +2 more
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