Outputs (64)

From The City Of Bits to E-Topia: Space, Citizenship and Community as Global Strategy. (2014)
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2014). From The City Of Bits to E-Topia: Space, Citizenship and Community as Global Strategy. International Journal of E-Adoption, 6, https://doi.org/10.4018/ijea.2014010102

Mitchell's book on the City of Bits, sets out a vision of urban life literally done to bits. His next book e-topia, provides the counter-point to this vision of urban life and scenario where the city is no longer left in bits and pieces, but a place... Read More about From The City Of Bits to E-Topia: Space, Citizenship and Community as Global Strategy..

From intelligent to smart cities. (2014)
Book
(2014). M. Deakin, & H. Al Waer (Eds.), From intelligent to smart cities. Routledge/ Taylor and Francis

The concept of smart cities offers a revolutionary vision of urban design for sustainability. Utilising the intelligent application of new technologies, smart cities also incorporate considerations of social and environmental capital in order to tran... Read More about From intelligent to smart cities..

Creating smart-er cities (2014)
Book
Deakin, M. (Ed.). (2014). Creating smart-er cities. Routledge/ Taylor and Francis

Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in n.America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced by a co... Read More about Creating smart-er cities.

Smart cities: the state-of-the-art and governance challenge (2014)
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2014). Smart cities: the state-of-the-art and governance challenge. Triple Helix, 1, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40604-014-0007-9

Reflecting on the governance of smart cities, the state-of-the-art this paper advances offers a critique of recent city ranking and future Internet accounts of their development. Armed with these critical insights, it goes on to explain smart cities... Read More about Smart cities: the state-of-the-art and governance challenge.

The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods (2014)
Journal Article
Sidawi, B., Deakin, M., & Al-Hariri, M. T. A. (2016). The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods. Indoor and Built Environment, 25(3), 495-508. https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326x14556909

Abstract Many studies have demonstrated the adverse effect built environments have on health and differentiated between their direct and indirect impacts. In the case of diabetes and other chronic diseases, such studies concentrate on the direct imp... Read More about The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods.

Demonstrating How Urban Morphology Matters: Reaching Beyond the Geometry of Building Design, Construction Systems and Occupational Behaviours and Towards Broader Context-Specific Transformations. (2013)
Journal Article
Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Campbell, F. H. (2013). Demonstrating How Urban Morphology Matters: Reaching Beyond the Geometry of Building Design, Construction Systems and Occupational Behaviours and Towards Broader Context-Specific Transformations. Environmental management and sustainable development, 2, 101. https://doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v2i2.4307

Recent studies of urban morphology, suggest the design, layout and texture of district centres, neighbourhoods and buildings have as much a bearing on levels of energy consumption and rates of carbon emission as either buildings or their occupation.... Read More about Demonstrating How Urban Morphology Matters: Reaching Beyond the Geometry of Building Design, Construction Systems and Occupational Behaviours and Towards Broader Context-Specific Transformations..

Sustainable urban development: Use of the environmental assessment methods (2013)
Journal Article
Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2014). Sustainable urban development: Use of the environmental assessment methods. Sustainable Cities and Society, 10, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2013.04.002

The need to protect the environment from the wanton ecological destruction of unfettered economic growth and conspicuous consumption is unquestionable. What is still in question, however, is how environmental assessment methods can be used as a means... Read More about Sustainable urban development: Use of the environmental assessment methods.

The mass-retrofitting of an energy efficient low carbon dioxide zone (2012)
Journal Article
Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Campbell, F. H. (2012). The mass-retrofitting of an energy efficient low carbon dioxide zone. Proceedings of the ICE - Energy, 165, 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1680/ener.12.00004

This paper offers a case-study analysis of a recent attempt to reduce energy consumption and the associated levels of carbon dioxide emissions by way of and through what has been termed ‘an active and integrated institutional arrangement’. It involve... Read More about The mass-retrofitting of an energy efficient low carbon dioxide zone.

The mass retrofitting of an energy efficient-low carbon zone: baselining the urban regeneration strategy, vision, masterplan and redevelopment scheme (2012)
Journal Article
Deakin, M., Campbell, F. H., & Reid, A. (2012). The mass retrofitting of an energy efficient-low carbon zone: baselining the urban regeneration strategy, vision, masterplan and redevelopment scheme. Energy Policy, 45, 187-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.02.019

This paper examines a recent attempt to reduce energy consumption and the associated levels of carbon emissions by way of and through what has been termed: “an active and integrated institutional arrangement”. That is, by the integration of a mass re... Read More about The mass retrofitting of an energy efficient-low carbon zone: baselining the urban regeneration strategy, vision, masterplan and redevelopment scheme.

Intelligent cities as smart providers: CoPs as organizations for developing integrated models of eGovernment services. (2012)
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2012). services. Innovation / Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 25, 115-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2012.660324

This paper develops the notion of the intelligent city as the smart provider of electronically enhanced services. It identifies how this growing interest in intelligent cities has led universities to exploe the opportunities “communities of practice”... Read More about Intelligent cities as smart providers: CoPs as organizations for developing integrated models of eGovernment services..