Open Cities

Open Space Innovation in Earthquake Affected Cities

Open drug scenes: responses of five European cities

BACKGROUND Open drug scenes are gatherings of drug users who publicly consume and deal drugs. The authors conducted a study of five European cities that have met such scenes constructively. The aim was to investigate shared and non-shared interventions and strategies in order to increase the understanding of this type of problem. METHODS First a description was made for the cities of Amsterda...

Open Space Loss and Land Inequality in United States' Cities, 1990–2000

Urban growth reduces open space in and around cities, impacting biodiversity and ecosystem services. Using land-cover and population data, we examined land consumption and open space loss between 1990 and 2000 for all 274 metropolitan areas in the contiguous United States. Nationally, 1.4 million ha of open space was lost, and the amount lost in a given city was correlated with population growt...

Building an Open Service Innovation Platform for a City’s Needs: an Empirical Study on Smart Cities

The purpose of this paper is to increase knowledge of central issues in building a concept for an open innovation platform for a city’s needs. So far, there is very little knowledge of the fundamental question that needs to be answered when building up an innovation platform which aims at developing solutions to a city’s problems and needs. This paper empirically fills this knowledge gap and co...

Resilience-building and the crisis informatics agenda: Lessons learned from open cities Kathmandu

Information systems that support crisis responders and disaster risk management efforts are complex sociotechnical phenomena comprised of human capacities and relationships, data and software tools. Research in crisis informatics has highlighted the ways in which emergent groups of digital volunteers, or volunteer technical communities, have mobilized during disaster events to support informati...