Abstract Smart city approaches have tended to be top-down, techno-centric/corporate and expensive which are promoted by large, global companies. narratives focus on their expected capacity improve citizens’ quality of life. However, can technology-driven municipally-led smart initiatives address the issues faced poor vulnerable communities in urban peri-urban areas? This paper explores key aspe...

Initiating and sustaining sufficient levels of participation among residents in low-income and urban neighborhoods have become significant focuses of many initiatives that strive to develop healthy communities. This study examines the factors associated with citizen participation levels in resident leaders and followers in seven low-income neighborhoods in one community. Overall, the findings s...

Problem, research strategy, and findings Equity is a major goal in post-disaster recovery reconstruction. However, although extensive demonstrates the connections between race/class heightened vulnerability to disasters, few examine or name mechanisms responsible for this correlation. Such are referred as procedural vulnerabilities historical ongoing power relations that lead inequitable outcom...