Part I. Needs for New Durable Visions -- Strategic Planning as Governance of Long Lasting Transformative Practices -- Urban Living Labs: Opportunities in and for Planning -- Smart Cities + Smart Citizens = Civic Intelligence? -- PART II. Complex Participatory Design Processes -- Design and the Transformation of Cities -- Design at the Intersection Among Cities Challenges, New Public Services and Policy Making.-Spatial Planning and Design Citizenship -- PART III. Innovating Governance and Economic Models -- The Frugal Government Concept Revisited -- From Public-Private-People Partnerships to Trading Zones in Urban Planning -- New Urban Services: Towards New Relations Between Economy and Society -- Socially Inclusive Urban Transformation After the Great Recession -- Part IV. Experiences -- The Human Smart City Manifesto. A Global Perspective.-SLETTEN Rethinking Urban Habitats Through Creative Management and Social Engagement -- MILAN Community Gardens, As Space for New Societal Assemblages and Learning on Public Goods -- AVEIRO Civic Movements to Promote Smarter Decisions for the Future of the City -- PALERMO Living Labs for Urban Regeneration -- Afterword -- The Changing Face of Urban Planning: Toward Collaborative and Creative Cities.

Within the most recent discussion on smart cities and the way this vision is affecting urban changes and dynamics, this book explores the interplay between planning and design both at the level of the design and planning domains' theories and practices. Urban transformation is widely recognized as a complex phenomenon, rich in uncertainty. It is the unpredictable consequence of complex interplay between urban forces (both top-down or bottom-up), urban resources (spatial, social, economic and infrastructural as well as political or cognitive) and transformation opportunities (endogenous or exogenous). The recent attention to Urban Living Lab and Smart City initiatives is disclosing a promising bridge between the micro-scale environments, with the dynamics of such forces and resources, and the urban governance mechanisms. This bridge is represented by those urban collaborative environments, where processes of smart service co-design take place through dialogic interaction with and among citizens within a situated and cultural-specific frame.

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