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A Social Work Perspective on Socio-technological Innovations in Urban Planning and Development

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In the field of sustainable urban development ModularCity as a socio-technological innovation, which combines methods and approaches from computer-assisted planning, geography and social work. It allows planning representatives to analyse the socio-spatial context of future development projects by editing, collecting and visualizing geo-referenced, objective as well as subjective, data in one planning tool. This article explores ModularCity’s impact for participative and socially sensitive urban planning and reflects the options and limits of data-driven analysis and socio-spatial visualization. The focus is on the translation between stakeholder’s different planning concepts, goals and languages and it will be discussed how ModularCity’s strategies of integration, visualisation and responsiveness serve to the translational demand in sustainable urban planning.

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    For more information see www.modularcity.ch.

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    ROI stands for Return of Investment.

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  1. Institute for Social Planning, Organisational Change and Urban Development, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland

    Tanja Klöti, Matthias Drilling & Carlo Fabian

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  1. Institute of Law, Politics and Development & Institute of management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Chiara Certomà

  2. Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Mark Dyer

  3. Economic Informatics and Cybernetics Department, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

    Lorena Pocatilu

  4. Institute of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Francesco Rizzi

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Klöti, T., Drilling, M., Fabian, C. (2017). A Social Work Perspective on Socio-technological Innovations in Urban Planning and Development. In: Certomà, C., Dyer, M., Pocatilu, L., Rizzi, F. (eds) Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47904-0_7

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