Place-making, Policy, and Geographic Information: How People Respond to Urban and Rural Challenges in an Information Age

场所营造、政策和地理信息：人们如何应对信息时代的城乡挑战

• 批准号: 1946326
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Swansea University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1946326
• 关键词: Place; making; Policy; Geographic; Information

Context: How people, communities, and policy-makers might create better futures for places is a complex question that can be informed by better geographic information to create more liveable places.Rationale: Recent smart-city initiatives (InnovateUK; Horizon2020) emphasize technological solutions in urban environments, potentially neglecting urban-rural differences and interactions, regional flows of people, employment, service accessibility, etc. There is simultaneous recognition that citizen engagement/stakeholders collaboration is vital (EUSmartCities Principles and Enablers for Citizen Engagement, 2015), as reflected in renewed interest in place-making. This approach, originating with Jane Jacobs, mobilizes community collaboration. Sustainable and inclusive planning creates a need to consider how individuals and communities value places and how geographic information can contribute.Aims: The project aims to develop knowledge and skills to involve citizens in developing more liveable places, realizing the nature and value of place-related information in integrated decision-making.Research Questions:What are the significant trends, drivers and challenges in urban-rural relationships, with what implications for place characteristics?How to effectively engage citizens in addressing local challenges through their sense of place?How can geographic information better integrate with processes of engagement between stakeholders, sharing information and representing place to inform policy-development and decisions affecting place?Scope: The project concerns the interrelationships between contrasting Welsh urban areas and their rural hinterlands. Cardiff, Swansea and Aberystwyth have different contexts and structures, with different relationships between urban centres, suburban peripheries, and rural surrounds. The project will examine such relationships, how they affect the places people relate to, and how places affect peoples expectations of local services and policies.Methods: An innovative methodology will combine ethnographic work to understand community contexts; GIS and space-syntax methods to understand connectivity between urban, suburban, and rural locations; and interviews/focus groups to verify and probe hypotheses derived from initial scoping. Engaging policy makers will provide opportunities to influence policy-making and public engagement and observe the results.Design: Immersion in literature on place-making, policy-making, and mixed-methods approaches (including Public Participation GIS) will refine the substantive and comparative aspects of the research design (effecting a trade-off between the thematic issues addressed and geographical areas included). Initial work will deploy ethnographic/focus-group methods to understand the urban and rural fabric in which people live. Policy-makers will be recruited to understand their views on the role of place in policy-making. A third strand will assemble digital geographic information to relate initial results to the physical and historical fabric of particular places.

内容：人们、社区和政策制定者如何为地方创造更好的未来是一个复杂的问题，可以通过更好的地理信息来创建更宜居的地方。理由：最近的智慧城市计划（InnovateUK; Horizon 2020）强调城市环境中的技术解决方案，可能忽视城乡差异和相互作用、区域人口流动、就业、服务可及性，人们同时认识到，公民参与/利益攸关方的合作至关重要（EUSmartCities Principles and Enablers for Citizen Engagement，2015），这反映在人们对场所建设的新兴趣上。这一方法源于Jane Jacobs，动员了社区合作。可持续和包容性的规划创造了一个需要考虑个人和社区如何价值的地方，以及地理信息如何可以contribute.Aims：该项目旨在开发知识和技能，让公民参与开发更宜居的地方，实现的性质和价值的地方相关的信息在综合决策。研究问题：什么是重大的趋势，驱动力和挑战，在城乡关系，与地方特色的影响？如何有效地让公民通过他们的地方感来应对当地的挑战？地理信息如何才能更好地与利益攸关方之间的接触过程相结合，分享信息和代表地方，为影响地方的政策制定和决定提供信息？范围：该项目涉及对比威尔士城市地区和农村地区之间的相互关系。卡迪夫、斯旺西和阿伯里斯特威斯有着不同的背景和结构，城市中心、郊区外围和农村周边之间的关系也不同。该项目将研究这样的关系，他们如何影响人们的地方，以及如何影响人们的期望，当地的服务和policy.Methods：一个创新的方法将结合联合收割机民族志工作，了解社区的背景下，地理信息系统和空间语法的方法来了解城市，郊区和农村地区之间的连接，和采访/焦点小组，以验证和探索假设来自初始范围。参与政策制定者将提供机会，影响决策和公众参与，并观察result.Design：沉浸在文献的地方决策，决策，和混合方法的方法（包括公众参与GIS）将完善的实质性和比较方面的研究设计（影响处理的主题问题和地理区域之间的权衡）。初步工作将采用人种学/焦点小组方法，以了解人们生活的城乡结构。将招募决策者，以了解他们对地方在决策中的作用的看法。第三部分将汇集数字地理信息，将初步结果与特定地点的自然和历史结构联系起来。