Summary of social media techniques and applications that can be used to improve the public involvement process in urban and transport planning. Including reporting applications, serious games, collaboration tools, educational applications and supporting tools.
2. Outline
1. Public
involvement
and
planning.
2. What
are
interac(ve
city
tools
anyway?
3. A
structure
for
understanding.
4. Examples.
5. Summary
and
QuesLons.
4. Big
Problems
+
Limited
Resources
• Climate
change
• Socio-‐economic
change
• Demographic
change
• Urban
growth
• Financial
crisis
Ci(es
cannot
solve
today’s
difficult
problems
without
help
from
their
residents.
5. How
does
public
involvement
help?
• Generates
beSer
ideas
Detailed
local
knowledge
&
fresh
perspec5ve
• Provides
poliLcal
support
Especially
important
for
tough
decisions
• Creates
commiSed
residents
People
willing
to
ac5vely
help
10. Interac(ve
city
tools
ApplicaLons
and
technologies
that
help
people
work
together
to
increase
city
livability,
economic
well-‐being
and
sustainability.
15. Open
Data
(by
Government)
Sensor
Data
(by
public)
EducaSonal
Apps
Public
Discussion
Apps
AcSons
AcSviSes
Services
Plans
InformaSon
Status
Updates
BeBer
MeeSng
Apps
CollaboraSon
VisualizaSon
Analysis
AccounSng
Develop
New
Apps
Input
Analysis
CollaboraSon
Output
Public
ReporSng
Apps
Support
Real
RelaSonship
Apps
16. The
public
role:
A. Provide
input
B. Analyze
data
C. Collaborate
in
planning
D. Support
decision-‐making
E. Take
acLon
Input
Analysis
CollaboraLon
Output
Support
17. These
are
the
same
acLviLes
ciLzens
have
always
performed
…
But
today’s
informaLon
technology
has
vastly
expanded
the
ability
of
ciLzens
to
get
involved:
-‐
more
people
-‐
more
detail
26. Traffic
Check
hBp://www.trafficcheck.at/
User
friendly
features
needed
for
mobile
phone
reporLng:
• automaLc
geo
locaLon,
• logical
informaLon
flow,
• check
boxes
for
data
entry.
27.
28. A
key
part
of
customized
reporLng
apps
are
back-‐end
analysis
and
tracking
systems.
Verbeterdebuurt,
Netherlands
hBp://www.verbeterdebuurt.nl/
34. • City
data
–
open
data
streams
or
scraped.
• CiLzen
collected
data
–
cheap
sensors.
Government
no
longer
has
a
monopoly
on
data
and
informa(on.
B.
Data
Analysis
36. Now
…
a
word
from
our
sponsors:
Please
open
your
city
data
This
means
providing
easy
access
to
• real
data
(not
PDFs)
• via
applicaSon
programming
interfaces
(APIs)
• using
standard
formats
(e.g.
GTFS).
See:
Open
Knowledge
FoundaSon
for
more
informaSon
about
open
data:
hBp://okfn.org/
37. CiLzen
collected
data
It’s
easier
then
ever
for
ciSzens
to
collect
data
• Inexpensive
sensors
• Scraping
public
data
sites
Open
your
data
so
ciSzens
do
not
need
to
scrape
your
sites
…
let
them
create
applicaSons
for
you
…
this
will
save
you
money
and
increase
creaSvity!
60. E.
AcLon
• InformaLon
–
e.g.
transit
informaSon
• Real
acLviLes
– Clean-‐up
days
– P2P
ridesharing
–
Sharing
Culture
– Casserole
–
shared
meals
and
socializaLon
• Crowd-‐sourced
civic
works
If
you
don’t
do
it
someone
else
will
…
(not
necessarily
bad).
68. 5.
Summary
and
QuesLons
1. We
need
more
and
beSer
involvement
to
solve
today’s
serious
problems.
2. Input
is
more
than
words
and
talk.
3. New
technology
=
more
involvement:
…
in
all
aspects
of
planning.
4. Please
open
your
data.
5. If
you
don’t
do
it
…
someone
else
will.
69. Andrew
Nash
helps
clients
develop
social
media,
serious
games
and
crowd
sourcing
applicaSons
designed
to
improve
ciSes
and
transport
systems.
His
current
projects
include
Grr-‐Grr-‐Bike
(www.grr-‐grr-‐bike.com),
a
smart
phone
game
designed
to
encourage
people
to
get
involved
in
urban
bicycle
planning
and
advocacy,
and
www.GreenCityStreets.com,
a
project
that
uses
a
serious
game
and
a
wiki-‐based
best
pracSces
website
to
educate
people
about
public
transport
operaSons
and
a
Facebook-‐
based
crowdsourcing
plahorm.
You
can
reach
him
at:
andy@andynash.com
70. Crowd-‐sourced
Planning
Using interactive city tools to
improve public involvement
Andrew
Nash
andy@andynash.com
www.andynash.com
+43
676
933-‐0483
Vienna,
Austria
71. References
• Nash,
Andrew;
A
Proposed
Structure
for
Understanding
InteracSve
City
Tools;
May
2013,
hBp://andynash.com/publicaSons/
• “InteracSve
City
Tool”
from
Play
the
City
hBp://www.playthecity.nl/
• Code
for
America
(CfA)
hBp://codeforamerica.org/
• OpenPlans
hBp://openplans.org
• Open
Knowledge
FoundaSon
hBp://okfn.org/
• GovLab
Open
Governance
WIKI
hBp://thegovlab.org/wiki/Main_Page
ReporLng
ApplicaLons
• Seeclickfix
hBp://seeclickfix.org
• Fix
My
Transport
hBp://www.fixmytransport.com
• CiSzens
Connect
hBp://www.cityososton.gov/doit/apps/ciSzensconnect.asp
• Traffic
Check
hBp://www.trafficcheck.at/
• Verbeterdebuurt,
Netherlands
hBp://www.verbeterdebuurt.nl/
72. References
-‐
2
GPS
Data
ReporLng
ApplicaLons
• CycleTracks,
San
Francisco
–
GPS
data
collecSon
system
for
bicycling:
hBp://www.sfcta.org/modeling-‐and-‐travel-‐forecasSng/
• Meine
Radspur,
Vienna
hBp://www.meineradspur.at/
• StreetBump,
Boston
hBp://streetbump.org
• Waze
roadway
GPS
data
collecSon
www.waze.com
• Moovit
public
transport
GPS
reporSng
app:
www.moovitapp.com
CiLzen
Collected
Data
• WayCount
traffic
counter:
hBp://trafficcom.org
• Air
Quality
Egg:
hBp://airqualityegg.com
• Cosm
sensor
data
sharing
plahorm
hBps://cosm.com/
• Seeplan
–
project
by
Even
Westvang
from
Bengler
–
hBp://bengler.no/seeplan
73. References
-‐
3
CollaboraLon
ApplicaLons
• MindMixer
www.mindmixer.com
• Shareabouts
hBp://shareabouts.org
• GreenCityStreets.com
www.greencitystreets.com
• Loomio
–
crowd
sourced
decision
making
www.loomio.org
• Bogotá
–
My
ideal
city
hBp://www.miciudadideal.com/en/ciSzen_sourced
CiLzen
Collected
Data
• WayCount
traffic
counter:
hBp://trafficcom.org
• Air
Quality
Egg:
hBp://airqualityegg.com
• Cosm
sensor
data
sharing
plahorm
hBps://cosm.com/
74. References
-‐
4
Support
and
EducaLon
• Community
Planit
hBp://communityplanit.org
• BusMeister
Game
hBp://www.greencitystreets.com
• ParScipatory
Chinatown
hBp://www.parScipatorychinatown.org/
• Streetmix.net
hBp://streetmix.net
• Grr-‐Grr-‐Bike
engagement
game
hBp://www.grr-‐grr-‐bike.com
• Designing
Chicago
hBp://designingchicago.com/
• Plan
in
a
Box
hBp://planinabox.org/
• Simpl
Challenge
hBp://www.simpl.co/howitworks
Taking
AcLon
• Everyday
Growing
Cultures
hBp://everydaygrowingcultures.org
• 596
Acres
–
New
York
hBp://596acres.org/
• Ciclos
Rotas
Centro
–
Rio
de
Janeiro
hBp://events.gsapp.org/event/ciclo-‐rotas-‐centro-‐0
• Networks
of
Dispossession
–
Turkey
hBp://mulksuzlesSrme.org/index_en.html