[bestbits] FW: [JoCI] New Issue Published Special Issue: Community Informatics and Urban Planning

[michael gurstein]

While not specifically concerned with Internet Governance several of the articles in this special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics provide interesting and useful insights into what practical, effective bottom-up planning/consultation in supportive of democratic decision making might look like in our increasingly urban, complex and Internet enabled polities.

Readers:

The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Michael Gurstein, Ph.D.
Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624 gurstein at gmail.com

The Journal of Community Informatics

Vol 10, No 3 (2014): Special Issue: Community Informatics and Urban Planning

Table of Contents

http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/49

Editorial
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Community Informatics in Cities: New Catalysts for Urban Change
	Liisa Marjatta Horelli,	David Sadoway

Smart Cities vs. Smart Communities: Empowering Citizens not Market Economics
	Michael Gurstein


Articles
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Expanded Urban Planning as a Vehicle for Understanding and Shaping Smart, Liveable Cities
	Aija Staffans,	Liisa Horelli

Rethinking Third Places:  Contemporary Design With Technology
	Nemanja Memarovic,	Sidney Fels,	Junia Anacleto,	Roberto Calderon,	Federico
Gobbo,	John M. Carroll

Augmented Reality or Paper-Based Plans? A comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of their use in participatory processes based on different field tests
	Florian Reinwald,	Martin Berger,	Christop Stoik,	Mario Platzer,	Doris
Damyanovic

Urban cartography for pedestrians
	Konstantinos Chorianopoulos

Exploring the use of PPGIS in self-organizing urban development: Case softGIS in Pacific Beach
	Kaisa Schmidt-Thome,	Sirkku Wallin,	Tiina Laatikainen,	Jonna
Kangasoja,	Marketta Kyttä

Neighborhood Planning of Technology: Physical Meets Digital City from the Bottom-Up with Aging Payphones
	Benjamin Stokes,	François Bar,	Karl Baumann,	Ben Caldwell

Empowering Newcomers with Low-Tech Workshops and High-Tech Analyses
	Katia Balassiano,	Christopher J. Seeger

The ‘Urban Spacebook’ experimental process: Co-designing a Platform for Participation
	Corelia Elena Baibarac


Notes from the field
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(Re)Prioritizing Citizens in Smart Cities Governance: Examples of Smart Citizenship from Urban India
	David Sadoway,	Satyarupa Shekhar

Urban Acupuncture in the era on Ubiquitous Media
	Salvatore Iaconesi,	Oriana Persico

ICTS ENCOURAGING CHANGES IN THE CITIZEN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT AND URBAN SPACE: BRAZILIAN EXAMPLES
	Geisa Bugs

Local knowledge and the right to the hybrid city
	Panayotis Antoniadis,	Ileana Apostol

Strengthening the Environmental Third Sector in the Hyper-Digital Era
	Subas P. Dhakal


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