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Today the world's largest economies and corporations trade in data and its products to generate value in new disruptive markets. Within these markets vast streams of data are often inaccessible or untapped and controlled by powerful monopolies. Counter to this exclusive use of data is a promising world-wide "open-data" movement, promoting freely accessible information to share, reuse and redistribute. The provision and application of open data has enormous potential to transform exclusive, technocratic "smart cities" into inclusive and responsive "open-cities".
This book argues that those who contribute urban data should benefit from its production. Like the city itself, the information landscape is a public asset produced through collective effort, attention, and resources. People produce data through their engagement with the city, creating digital footprints through social medial, mobility applications, and city sensors. By opening up data there is potential to generate greater value by supporting unforeseen collaborations, spontaneous urban innovations and solutions, and improved decision-making insights. Yet achieving more open cities is made challenging by conflicting desires for urban anonymity, sociability, privacy and transparency. This book engages with these issues through a variety of critical perspectives, and presents strategies, tools and case studies that enable this transformation.
Contents
Foreword.- 1. Introduction: Open Data and the Generation of Urban Value.- Part 1 Urban Inclusion and Social Entrepreneurship.- 2. Homelessness and Open City Data: addressing a global challenge.- 3. Open Data and Racial Segregation: mapping the historic imprint of racial covenants and redlining on American Cities.- 4. Safer Cities for Women: global and local innovations with open data and civic technology.- 5. Open Online Platforms and the Collaborative Production of Micro Urban Spaces: towards an architecture of civic engagement.- 6. Slum Digitisation, its Opponents and Allies in Developing Smart Cities: the case of Kibera, Nairobi.- Part 2 Knowledge Ecosystems and Resilience.- 7. Mapping Climate Vulnerability with Open Data: a dashboard for place-based action.- 8. Urban Metabolism and Open Data: opportunities and challenges for urban resource efficiency.- 9. Tackling the Challenge of Growing Cities: an informed urbanisation approach.- 10. Linking Complex Urban Systems: insights from cross-domain urban data analysis.- 11. Interfacing the City: mixed reality as a form of open data.- 12. A Dashboard for the Unexpected: open data for real time disaster response Civic Innovation and Transparency.- 13. An Information Management Strategy for City Data Hubs: open data strategies for large organisations.- 14. Tell Me How My Open Data is Re-used: increasing transparency through the Open City Toolkit.- 15. From Repositories to Switchboards: local governments as open data facilitators.- 16. Understanding the Open Data Challenge for Building Smart Cities in India.- 17. Resilient Cities, User-Driven Planning, and Open Data Policy.
