Living Concrete/Carrot City: An Exhibition Platform as a Growing Medium

The City as a Service Platform: A Typology of City Platform Roles in Mobile Service Provision

This paper explores which roles city governments can take up in the context of the on-going platformisation of the mobile services industry. It takes an experimental approach by applying an existing typology for mobile service platforms to the context of the city, combined with an analysis of real-life examples. The paper identifies four city platform types; an enabler, integrator, neutral and ...

Residents’ Perspectives on Living in Inner City Medium Density Housing

Newcastle has become hip. No one is exactly sure when, or even how it happened, but somewhere after the closure of BHP the city has lived up to what has become a much-used phrase it has moved from steel city to style city. ... Much of the change has taken place around the foreshore, where the Honeysuckle urban renewal project has Novocastrians and visitors working, living and playing ... The la...

A Context-sensitive Nomadic Information System as an Exhibition Guide

The paper describes the goal and practice of the nomadic exhibition guide Hippie. Hippie takes into account the context of use of the nomadic system. An information system is said to be nomadic when the user has access to both his or her personal information space and to the public information space from all places independent from specific devices—for nomadic systems see (Kleinrock 1997). For ...

Growing Green Roofs, City by City

Virtual Space as a Platform for Student Research Practices

Online learning is becoming an increasingly popular request. Many universities are moving fully or partially to this form of study. In the article, the authors considered what is virtual space, what are its criteria, as well as applicability for teaching students and passing research practices. Based on an analysis of existing virtual spaces (platforms), an experiment was conducted. The study s...