Co-design in Urban Planning by David Ludlow, Associate Professor at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

1. Assoc Professor David Ludlow
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Co-design in Urban Planning

2.  Urban Management – multiple challenges
 finite resources and resource efficiency
 climate change impacts and environmental vulnerability
 demographic change and social cohesion
 economic and financial crisis
 Hence management complexity and need for innovative ideas
on transformational governance of cities – an integrated
governance that can manage this complexity
urban management challenges

3. urban complexity + integrated
urban management

4.  Nature-based solutions to societal challenges are inspired
and supported by nature (living solutions). They are
adaptable, multi-purpose and resource efficient and provide
simultaneously environmental, social and economic benefits:
 improve city resilience to CC and natural disasters
contributing to both CC adaptation and mitigation;
 restore urban biodiversity, ecosystems and their services;
 improve human health, air and water quality, reduce noise;
 improve quality of life, well-being and social cohesion…..
Nature based solutions

5.  Delivery of public services including urban planning undergoing
fundamental transformation
 Stimulated internally by management reform, and externally by
societal and technology innovation
 Internal management reform response to budgetary pressures and
complexity of urban planning - challenge too great for expert top-
down governance alone
 Combining bottom-up ideas with top-down sponsoring and steering
promotes open urban governance and integrated management
 Bottom-up engagement with urban stakeholders secures greater
understanding of complex city processes - enhanced citizen
empowerment - and democratic legitimacy
Drivers of Transformation

6.  Both societal and ICT innovation provide major opportunity to realise
the full potential of bottom-up engagement in integrated urban
planning
 Leveraging social networking, crowd sourcing and other
collaborative ICT technologies to support of integrated and
participatory urban planning
 Promoting technological innovations - such as open data and take-up
of social media data - to support knowledge exchange as well as
enhanced connectivity, openness and transparency
 EU Funded Innovation Research Projects (FP7/Horizon 2020) are
engaging city and industry partners in defining practical applications
and methodologies supporting ICT enabled urban planning
Catalyst of Innovation

7.  SMARTICIPATE - Smart Services for Calculated Impact Assessment in Open Governance (Horizon 2020
Innovation Action, European Commission, 2016 – 2019)
 URBIS – urban vacant land applications for urban atlas (ICT-PSP , European Commission, 2014 – 2017)
 DECUMANUS – Earth observation data supporting smart city applications for integrated urban
governance (FP7 space call, European Commission, 2013 – 2016)
 urbanApi - urban planning tools and intelligence for integrated urban governance (FP7 DG INFSO,
European Commission, 2011 – 2014)
 HUMBOLDT Integrated Project – Development of a Framework for Data Harmonisation and Service
Integration (FP6 DG Research, European Commission, 2006 – 2010)
EU Funded Research Projects

8.  Urban planning is central to managing complexity (socio-economic and
environmental) in territorial context - and securing win-win policy
solutions
 Requires:
 Information, intelligence and communication
 assessment methodologies, visualisation, simulation
 integration of information and analysis (cross departmental/multi-scalar)
 engagement of stakeholders and co-production of plans (bottom up)
 All supported by ICT tools and methodologies
 Intelligence - communication – assessment - decision
urban planning requirements

9.  Intelligence - communication – assessment – decision
 policy cycle – operationalising and mobilising intelligence -
integrating governance
 assessment of socio-economic and environmental impacts of
alternative territorial development options
 stakeholder engagement regarding alternative development
options (co-design and innovation in solutions)
 political decision making and plan implementation (democracy,
legitimacy, trust)
spatial planning - operationalising
intelligence

10. policy cycle – operationalising
intelligence

11.  Open government paradigm driven by opening public data and
services and facilitating collaboration for the design, production and
delivery of public services
 Making government processes and decisions open to foster citizen
engagement improving the quality of decision-making and promoting
greater trust in public institutions
 Open processes, activities and decisions enhance transparency,
accountability and trust in government. ICT facilitates bottom-up,
participative and collaborative initiatives that tackle specific societal
problems
 Open government improving the efficiency, effectiveness and
quality of public services by introducing new processes, products,
services and methods of delivery enabled by ICT
Open Governance - principles

12. Open Governance – conceptual
frames - ICT perspectives

13. transformed by co-production
potentials

14. DECUMANUS EU FP7
Heat Loss Detection
Paris

15. Light Pollution Detection

16. Climate Change Impact

17. © 2011 urbanAPI Consortium http://www.urbanapi.eu
3D-VR application – Vitoria-Gasteiz
A - PRESENT
B - FUTURE

18. Vitoria-Gasteiz Transformed

19. 1914/09/2016
public motion exploration – Vienna

20. urban development simulation - Ruse
Titel - Ort, Datum - Vorname Name 20

21. Copernicus urban atlas – 700 cities

22.  Is it essential to view urban governance in relation to the
transformation tendencies arising in response to urban complexity
and the evolving dynamic of social and technological innovation?
 How does ICT enabled urban governance meet the needs of a
transformed governance, supporting requirements for both a more
integrated as well as more participatory open governance?
 How do we incentivise the community to realise the full potentials of
bottom-up engagement in the co-production of plans?
Questions for discussion