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Title Learning from community indicators movements: Towards a citizen-powered urban data revolution
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Authors Pires, SM; Magee, L; Holden, M
Title Learning from community indicators movements: Towards a citizen-powered urban data revolution
Year 2017
Published Environment And Planning C-Politics And Space, 35, 7
DOI 10.1177/2399654417691512
Abstract This paper explores current debates, data products and key implications of what has been called the urban data revolution, which has emerged to international prominence in recent years. We engage with critical appraisals of the new urban data revolution, and discuss what they can learn from both the successes and the failures of the earlier wave of data enthusiasm, the community indicators movement. Second, we analyse the different challenges, dangers and implications of the urban data revolution that both complicate and can sustain a citizen-centred vision of good city governance. We further consider the potential for deliberation and participation in the use of data to define and measure urban progress and success. In the face of a mounting volume and velocity of urban data, these lessons nonetheless pose democratic challenges to the urban data revolution today.
Author Keywords Big data; community indicators; standardization; smart city; sustainability indicators
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000413743200009
WoS Category Environmental Studies; Geography; Regional & Urban Planning; Public Administration
Research Area Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Geography; Public Administration
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