Participatory Mapping for Urban Fire Risk Reduction in High-density Urban Settlement

High Density Urban Environment

Urban settlement transitions

Urban growth dynamics attracts the efforts of scientists from many different disciplines with objectives ranging from theoretical understanding to the development of carefully tuned realistic models that can serve as planning and policy tools. Theoretical models are often abstract and of limited applied value while most applied models yield little theoretical understanding. Here we present a ma...

Participatory Mapping to Disrupt Unjust Urban Trajectories in Lima

This chapter shares the experience of two action research projects ReMap Lima and cLIMA sin Riego, where mapping has been used with three main objectives: to make visible what is otherwise ‘invisible’; to open up dialogue between different stakehold‐ ers in the city and to arrive at concrete actions, collectively negotiated between citizens and policy makers. Two case study sites were chosen in...

Participatory Sensing for Urban Communities

Social Tapestries views participatory sensing as the principal supporting technology to enable grass-roots groups and communities to track and act on information about their local environment. In this article, we report on our experiences with a low-cost open source hardware and software platform, which we specifically developed for this task. We describe how we employed this platform to suppor...

Participatory Privacy in Urban Sensing

Urban sensing systems that use mobile phones enable individuals and communities to collect and share data with unprecedented speed, accuracy and granularity. But employing mobile handsets as sensor nodes poses new challenges for privacy, data security, and ethics. To address these challenges, CENS is developing design principles based upon understanding privacy regulation as a participatory pro...