The continuous growth of social networks and the active use of social media services result in massive amounts of user-generated data. More and more people worldwide report and distribute up-to-date information about almost any topic. Therefore, we argue that this kind of data is a good basis to observe ongoing situations in cities as well as related situations from outside about these cities i...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the importance of conversing within cities, organizations and beyond, in order to adapt to the rapidly changing environment and promote co-operation, participation and with special reference to European cities. Design/methodology/approach – This paper brings examples and case studies of how the concepts of conversing cities has been and is being...

1 If we postulate the usual list of forces, cities should fly apart. The theory of production contains nothing that holds a city together. A city is simply a collection of factors of production – capital, people, and land-and land is always far cheaper outside cities than inside. Why don't capital and people move outside combining themselves with cheaper land and thereby increasing profits? Of ...