interactive city tool_structure-nash-14may13.pptx

Interactive City Tools - a structure for understanding

Andrew Nash GreenCityStreets.com May 14, 2013

Outline

1.   What are interac(ve city tools anyway? 2.   Why are they important? 3.   Why develop a structure? 4.   A proposed structure 5.   Examples 6.   QuesIons

1. What are interacIve city tools?

Social-‐based technologies designed to increase city livability, economic well-‐being and sustainability.

Your city?

2. Why are interacIve city tools important?

Big Problems + Limited Resources

•  Climate change •  Socio-‐economic change •  Demographic change •  Urban growth •  Financial crisis

Ci(es need ideas and help from residents to remain livable … “social era” principles.

3. Why develop a structure?

A structure helps us understand possibiliIes

… for connecIng and extending systems.

4. InteracIve City Tool Structure

Caveats

•  Rapidly changing field • Many possible structures

• Many tools are mulI-‐purpose

Structure Framework

•  Input •  Analysis •  CollaboraIon •  Support •  Output

Input Analysis CollaboraIon Output

Support

Open Data (by Government)

Sensor Data (by public)

EducaAonal Apps

Public Discussion Apps

AcAons AcAviAes Services

Plans

InformaAon Status Updates

BeGer MeeAng Apps

CollaboraAon

VisualizaAon Analysis

AccounAng

Develop New Apps

Input Analysis CollaboraAon Output

Public ReporAng Apps

Support Real

RelaAonship Apps

5. Examples

Open Data (by Government)




AccounAng

Sensor Data (by public) AcAons

AcAviAes Services



AccounAng

Air Quality Egg


InformaAon Status Updates VisualizaAon

Analysis AccounAng

Public ReporIng Apps

1.   Mainstream social media (TwiGer)

2.   Service status & reporIng 3.   GPS reporIng applicaIons (e.g., bikes) 4.   Survey applicaIons (e.g., Survey Monkey)

5.   Customized reporIng applicaIons

ReporIng

Customized reporIng applicaIons

A key part of customized reporIng apps are back-‐end analysis and tracking systems. Example: Verbeterdebuurt, Netherlands

discussion = collaboraIon reporIng = minimal collaboraIon

Discussion



Plans CollaboraIon

San Francisco Mind Mixer website

Shareabouts ... Brooklyn pedestrian safety (OpenPlans)

GreenCityStreets … Facebook-‐based collaboraIon app

“Why is everyone’s valuable input so stupid?”

EducaAonal Apps



Plans

BeGer MeeAng Apps

CollaboraAon


AccounAng

Develop New Apps

Support Real

RelaAonship Apps

Support ApplicaIons

EducaIonal ApplicaIons (Support)

1.   EducaIonal games 2.   BudgeIng games 3.   VisualizaIon tools 4.   Wikis 5.   Design libraries

Help improve the collabora(on process.

Community PlanIT … game based engagement app

BusMeister … a learning game about public transport.

Participatory Chinatown

Boston

Improve Public Transport wiki … … crowd-‐sourced informaIon about public transport.

AddiIonal Support ApplicaIons

1.   Encourage involvement 2.   Design new applicaIons 3.   Process and meeIng support

Help improve the collabora(on process.

Grr-‐Grr-‐Bike … … smartphone game: educaIon + engagement

Designing Chicago … … crowdsourcing public transport apps.

Plan-‐in-‐a-‐box … … tools for creaIng interacIve planning applicaIons.

GOOD QUESTION!

Outputs

1.   InformaIon – Status Updates 2.   Real AcIviIes and AcIons –  Clean-‐up days –  P2P ridesharing – Sharing –  Crowd funding – Kickstarter (?) –  Casserole – shared meals and socializing

3.   Plans

Finally …

If you don’t do it … someone else will!

6. QuesIons

InteracIve City Tools -‐ a structure for understanding

Andrew Nash [email protected] www.andynash.com +43 676 933-‐0483 Vienna, Austria

References

•  Nash, Andrew; A Proposed Structure for Understanding InteracAve City Tools; Paper prepared for TU DelX Conference: Using ICT, Social Media and Mobile Technologies to Foster Self-‐OrganisaAon in Urban and Neighbourhood Governance; May 2, 2013; paper and presentaAon: hGp://andynash.com/publicaAons/

•  Links and updated informaAon on InteracAve City Tools on the wiki: hGp://interacAve-‐city-‐planning-‐tools.wikispaces.com/home

•  “InteracAve City Tool” name from Play the City project Majority Report hGp://www.playthecity.nl/12460/en/seven-‐keys-‐to-‐make-‐an-‐interacAve-‐city-‐tool

•  “Social era” from Nilofer Merchant; 11 Rules for CreaAng Value in the #SocialEra, Harvard Business Review Press (September 12, 2012).

•  Trafficcom traffic counter: hGp://trafficcom.org •  Air Quality Egg: hGp://airqualityegg.com •  Cosm sensor data sharing plahorm hGps://cosm.com/

References -‐ 2

•  CycleTracks GPS data collecAon system for bicycling: hGp://www.sfcta.org/modeling-‐and-‐travel-‐forecasAng/cycletracks-‐iphone-‐and-‐android

•  Moovit public transport GPS reporAng app: www.moovitapp.com •  StreetBump hGp://www.cityoioston.gov/DoIT/apps/streetbump.asp •  Seeclickfix hGp://seeclickfix.org •  MindMixer www.mindmixer.com •  GreenCityStreets.com www.greencitystreets.com •  Shareabouts hGp://shareabouts.org •  ParAcipatory Chinatown hGp://www.parAcipatorychinatown.org/ •  Streetmix.net hGp://streetmix.net •  City Planning in a Box hGp://openplans.org/2013/04/plan-‐in-‐a-‐box/ •  DesigningChicago hGp://designingchicago.com/ •  Simpl Challenge hGp://www.simpl.co/howitworks •  CodeforAmerica (CfA) hGp://codeforamerica.org/

interactive city tool_structure-nash-14may13.pptx

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