1. Interactive City Tools
- a structure for understanding
Andrew
Nash
GreenCityStreets.com
May
14,
2013

2. Outline
1. What
are
interac(ve
city
tools
anyway?
2. Why
are
they
important?
3. Why
develop
a
structure?
4. A
proposed
structure
5. Examples
6. QuesIons

3. 1.
What
are
interacIve
city
tools?

5. Social-­‐based
technologies
designed
to
increase
city
livability,
economic
well-­‐being
and
sustainability.
Your
city?

6. 2.
Why
are
interacIve
city
tools
important?

7. Big
Problems
+
Limited
Resources
• Climate
change
• Socio-­‐economic
change
• Demographic
change
• Urban
growth
• Financial
crisis
Ci(es
need
ideas
and
help
from
residents
to
remain
livable
…
“social
era”
principles.

8. 3.
Why
develop
a
structure?

9. A
structure
helps
us
understand
possibiliIes

10. …
for
connecIng
and
extending
systems.

11. 4.
InteracIve
City
Tool
Structure

12. Caveats
• Rapidly
changing
field
• Many
possible
structures
• Many
tools
are
mulI-­‐purpose

13. Structure
Framework
• Input
• Analysis
• CollaboraIon
• Support
• Output
Input
Analysis
CollaboraIon
Output
Support

14. Open
Data
(by
Government)
Sensor
Data
(by
public)
EducaAonal
Apps
Public
Discussion
Apps
AcAons
AcAviAes
Services
Plans
InformaAon
Status
Updates
BeGer
MeeAng
Apps
CollaboraAon
VisualizaAon
Analysis
AccounAng
Develop
New
Apps
Input
Analysis
CollaboraAon
Output
Public
ReporAng
Apps
Support
Real
RelaAonship
Apps

15. 5.
Examples

16. Open
Data
(by
Government)
AcAons
AcAviAes
Services
InformaAon
Status
Updates
VisualizaAon
Analysis
AccounAng

17. Sensor
Data
(by
public)
AcAons
AcAviAes
Services
InformaAon
Status
Updates
VisualizaAon
Analysis
AccounAng

18. Air Quality Egg

19. AcAons
AcAviAes
Services
InformaAon
Status
Updates
VisualizaAon
Analysis
AccounAng
Public
ReporIng
Apps
1. Mainstream
social
media
(TwiGer)
2. Service
status
&
reporIng
3. GPS
reporIng
applicaIons
(e.g.,
bikes)
4. Survey
applicaIons
(e.g.,
Survey
Monkey)
5. Customized
reporIng
applicaIons
ReporIng

25. Customized
reporIng
applicaIons

29. A
key
part
of
customized
reporIng
apps
are
back-­‐end
analysis
and
tracking
systems.
Example:
Verbeterdebuurt,
Netherlands

30. discussion
=
collaboraIon
reporIng
=
minimal
collaboraIon
Discussion
Public
Discussion
Apps
AcAons
AcAviAes
Services
Plans
CollaboraIon

31. San
Francisco
Mind
Mixer
website

32. Shareabouts
...
Brooklyn
pedestrian
safety
(OpenPlans)

33. GreenCityStreets
…
Facebook-­‐based
collaboraIon
app

34. “Why
is
everyone’s
valuable
input
so
stupid?”

35. EducaAonal
Apps
Public
Discussion
Apps
AcAons
AcAviAes
Services
Plans
BeGer
MeeAng
Apps
CollaboraAon
VisualizaAon
Analysis
AccounAng
Develop
New
Apps
Support
Real
RelaAonship
Apps
Support
ApplicaIons

36. EducaIonal
ApplicaIons
(Support)
1. EducaIonal
games
2. BudgeIng
games
3. VisualizaIon
tools
4. Wikis
5. Design
libraries
Help
improve
the
collabora(on
process.

37. Community
PlanIT
…
game
based
engagement
app

38. BusMeister
…
a
learning
game
about
public
transport.

39. Participatory
Chinatown
Boston

41. Improve
Public
Transport
wiki
…
…
crowd-­‐sourced
informaIon
about
public
transport.

42. AddiIonal
Support
ApplicaIons
1. Encourage
involvement
2. Design
new
applicaIons
3. Process
and
meeIng
support
Help
improve
the
collabora(on
process.

43. Grr-­‐Grr-­‐Bike
…
…
smartphone
game:
educaIon
+
engagement

44. Designing
Chicago
…
…
crowdsourcing
public
transport
apps.

45. Plan-­‐in-­‐a-­‐box
…
…
tools
for
creaIng
interacIve
planning
applicaIons.

47. GOOD
QUESTION!

48. Outputs
1. InformaIon
–
Status
Updates
2. Real
AcIviIes
and
AcIons
– Clean-­‐up
days
– P2P
ridesharing
–
Sharing
– Crowd
funding
–
Kickstarter
(?)
– Casserole
–
shared
meals
and
socializing
3. Plans

49. Finally
…
If
you
don’t
do
it
…
someone
else
will!

50. 6.
QuesIons

51. InteracIve
City
Tools
-­‐
a
structure
for
understanding
Andrew
Nash
andy@andynash.com
www.andynash.com
+43
676
933-­‐0483
Vienna,
Austria

52. References
• Nash,
Andrew;
A
Proposed
Structure
for
Understanding
InteracAve
City
Tools;
Paper
prepared
for
TU
DelX
Conference:
Using
ICT,
Social
Media
and
Mobile
Technologies
to
Foster
Self-­‐OrganisaAon
in
Urban
and
Neighbourhood
Governance;
May
2,
2013;
paper
and
presentaAon:
hGp://andynash.com/publicaAons/
• Links
and
updated
informaAon
on
InteracAve
City
Tools
on
the
wiki:
hGp://interacAve-­‐city-­‐planning-­‐tools.wikispaces.com/home
• “InteracAve
City
Tool”
name
from
Play
the
City
project
Majority
Report
hGp://www.playthecity.nl/12460/en/seven-­‐keys-­‐to-­‐make-­‐an-­‐interacAve-­‐
city-­‐tool
• “Social
era”
from
Nilofer
Merchant;
11
Rules
for
CreaAng
Value
in
the
#SocialEra,
Harvard
Business
Review
Press
(September
12,
2012).
• Trafficcom
traffic
counter:
hGp://trafficcom.org
• Air
Quality
Egg:
hGp://airqualityegg.com
• Cosm
sensor
data
sharing
plahorm
hGps://cosm.com/

53. References
-­‐
2
• CycleTracks
GPS
data
collecAon
system
for
bicycling:
hGp://www.sfcta.org/modeling-­‐and-­‐travel-­‐forecasAng/cycletracks-­‐
iphone-­‐and-­‐android
• Moovit
public
transport
GPS
reporAng
app:
www.moovitapp.com
• StreetBump
hGp://www.cityoioston.gov/DoIT/apps/streetbump.asp
• Seeclickfix
hGp://seeclickfix.org
• MindMixer
www.mindmixer.com
• GreenCityStreets.com
www.greencitystreets.com
• Shareabouts
hGp://shareabouts.org
• ParAcipatory
Chinatown
hGp://www.parAcipatorychinatown.org/
• Streetmix.net
hGp://streetmix.net
• City
Planning
in
a
Box
hGp://openplans.org/2013/04/plan-­‐in-­‐a-­‐box/
• DesigningChicago
hGp://designingchicago.com/
• Simpl
Challenge
hGp://www.simpl.co/howitworks
• CodeforAmerica
(CfA)
hGp://codeforamerica.org/