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The Hackable City

This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city making, relating examples of bottom-up or participatory practices to reflections about the changing roles of professional practitioners in the processes, as well as issues of governance and institutional policymaking.

City Marketing: spanningen en uitdagingen in de stedenstrijd

Bij de meeste Nederlandse gemeenten staat citymarketing hoog op de beleidsagenda. Van Den Helder tot Terneuzen en van Valkenburg tot Groningen investeren bestuurders vol enthousiasme in de marketing van hun stad. Met nieuwbouwprojecten, evenementen en campagnes trachten gemeenten bewoners, bedrijven, bezoekers en bollebozen aan te trekken en voor de stad te behouden. Leek de toenemende aandacht voor citymarketing aanvankelijk nog een hype, nu is het thema niet meer weg te denken uit het lokale beleid. Citymarketing is een heus vakgebied geworden met eigen netwerken, congressen en discussiefora. Voldoende reden om de balans op te maken en de ontwikkelingen in de citymarketing eens kritisch te beschouwen. Wat is de opgave van citymarketing en wie zijn er zoal bij betrokken? Welke instrumenten staan de citymarketeer ter beschikking en hoe kunnen ze worden ingezet? Hoe bepaal je de identiteit van de stad en welke rol speelt de gebouwde omgeving daarbij? Wat kunnen we leren van praktijkvoorbeelden van citymarketing? Dit soort vragen en nog meer antwoorden vindt de lezer in Citymarketing voorbij de hype. In het boek geven zeventien deskundigen uit de wetenschap en de advieswereld in kort bestek hun visie op citymarketing. Die bundeling van analyses levert tal van interessante inzichten, methoden en lessen voor de beleidspraktijk op. Het boek geeft de stand van zaken in de citymarketing weer en is daarmee verplichte kost voor iedereen die in het vakgebied zit of er zich in wil verdiepen.

Reclaiming the city from an urban vitalism perspective critically reflecting smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just city labels.

This article analyses four of the most prominent city discourses and introduces the lens of urban vitalism as an overarching interdisciplinary concept of cities as places of transformation and change. We demonstrate the value of using urban vitalism as a lens to conceptualize and critically discuss different notions on smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just cities. Urban vitalism offers a process-based lens which enables us to understand cities as places of transformation and change, with people and other living beings at its core. The aim of the article is to explore how the lens of vitalism can help us understand and connect ongoing interdisciplinary academic debates about urban development and vice versa, and how these ongoing debates inform our understanding of urban vitalism.

Knowledge and the European city

This paper discusses and illustrates the ‘knowledge turn’ in urban policy across Europe. We identify four manifestations of it: 1) widespread efforts to lure knowledge workers; 2) a growing involvement of knowledge institutes in urban development and planning processes, 3) an explicit ‘knowledge based’ approach to planning and the design of public space, and 4) efforts to underline a ‘knowledge city’ identity using all kinds of marketing and branding techniques.

Co-creation and co-design in pop-up stores

Co-creation as a concept and process has been prominent in both marketing and design research over the past ten years. Referring respectively to the active collaboration of firms with their stakeholders in value creation, or to the participation of design users in the design research process, there has arguably been little common discourse between these academic disciplines. This article seeks to redress this deficiency by connecting marketing and design research together—and particularly the concepts of co-creation and co-design—to advance theory and broaden the scope of applied research into the topic. It does this by elaborating the notion of the pop-up store as temporary place of consumer/user engagement, to build common ground for theory and experimentation in terms of allowing marketers insight into what is meaningful to consumers and in terms of facilitating co-design. The article describes two case studies, which outline how this can occur and concludes by proposing principles and an agenda for future marketing/design pop-up research. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Overdiek A. & Warnaby G. (2020), "Co-creation and co-design in pop-up stores: the intersection of marketing and design research?", Creativity & Innovation Management, Vol. 29, Issue S1, pp. 63-74, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12373. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/overdiek12345

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