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Big-Data Informed Citizen Participatory Urban Identity Design

Chang, Mei-Chih, Buš, Peter, Tartar, Ayça, Chirkin, Artem, Schmitt, Gerhard (2018) Big-Data Informed Citizen Participatory Urban Identity Design. In: Kepczynska-Walczak, A. and Bialkowski, S., eds. Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference. 2. pp. 679-688. Lodz University of Technology (KAR id:68962)

Abstract

The identity of an urban environment is important because it contributes to self-identity, a sense of community, and a sense of place. However, under present-day conditions, the identities of expanding cities are rapidly deteriorating and vanishing, especially in the case of Asian cities. Therefore, cities need to build their urban identity, which includes the past and points to the future. At the same time, cities need to add new features to improve their livability, sustainability, and resilience. In this paper, using data mining technologies for various types of geo-referenced big data and combine them with the space syntax analysis for observing and learning about the socioeconomic behavior and the quality of space. The observed and learned features are identified as the urban identity. The numeric features obtained from data mining are transformed into catalogued levels for designers to understand, which will allow them to propose proper designs that will complement or improve the local traditional features. A workshop in Taiwan, which focuses on a traditional area, demonstrates the result of the proposed methodology and how to transform a traditional area into a livable area. At the same time, we introduce a website platform, Quick Urban Analysis Kit (qua-kit), as a tool for citizens to participate in designs. After the workshop, citizens can view, comment, and vote on different design proposals to provide city authorities and stakeholders with their ideas in a more convenient and responsive way. Therefore, the citizens may deliver their opinions, knowledge, and suggestions for improvements to the investigated neighborhood from their own design perspective.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Proceeding)
Uncontrolled keywords: Urban identity, unsupervised machine learning, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), citizen participatory design, space syntax
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > Kent School of Architecture and Planning
Depositing User: Peter Bus
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2018 10:40 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 00:34 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/68962 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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