Outputs (53)

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..

Sustainable Urban Development (2011)
Thesis
Deakin, M. Sustainable Urban Development. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4660

This submission for PhD by publication aims to capture, reflect upon, analyse and offer critical insights into how the use of land and exchange of property can help serve the search for sustainable urban development (SUD).

This aim is subsequentl... Read More about Sustainable Urban Development.

The embedded intelligence of smart cities (2011)
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2011). The embedded intelligence of smart cities. Intelligent Buildings International, 3(3), 189-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2011.579340

This article offers an extensive review of Mitchell's thesis on the transition from the city of bits to e-topia and finds it wanting. It suggests that the problems encountered with the thesis lie with the lack of substantive insight it offers into th... Read More about The embedded intelligence of smart cities.

Exploring Emerging ICT-enabled Governance Models in European Cities. (2011)
Report
Misuraca, G., Reid, A., & Deakin, M. (2011). Exploring Emerging ICT-enabled Governance Models in European Cities

This report presents the findings of a mapping survey conducted by IPTS in collaboration with EUROCITIES as part of an exploratory research project on emerging ICT-enabled governance models in European cities (EXPGOV – http://is.jrc.es/pages/EAP/EXPG... Read More about Exploring Emerging ICT-enabled Governance Models in European Cities..

The triple-helix model of smart cities: a neo evolutionary perspective. (2011)
Journal Article
Leydesdorff, L., & Deakin, M. (2011). The triple-helix model of smart cities: a neo evolutionary perspective. Journal of Urban Technology, 18, 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2011.601111

This paper sets out to demonstrate how the triple-helix model enables us to study the knowledge base of an urban economy in terms of its civil society's support for the evolution of the city as a key component of an innovation system. It argues that... Read More about The triple-helix model of smart cities: a neo evolutionary perspective..

A community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneration (2009)
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2009). A community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneration. Journal of Urban Technology, 16, 91-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630730903090354

This paper outlines the research that has been carried out to understand Large Urban Distressed Areas (LUDAs) and the community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneration that cities are developing to meet the challenges LUDAs pose. After expos... Read More about A community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneration.

Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Communities: The Role of Networks, Innovation, and Creativity in Building Successful Partnerships (2007)
Journal Article
Deakin, M., & Allwinkle, S. (2007). Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Communities: The Role of Networks, Innovation, and Creativity in Building Successful Partnerships. Journal of Urban Technology, 14(1), 77-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630730701260118

The following examination goes against the current
trend in policy on urban regeneration partnerships by
relaxing the assumption that they represent virtuous
circles of mutually reinforcing actions that are good in their own right. It does this by... Read More about Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Communities: The Role of Networks, Innovation, and Creativity in Building Successful Partnerships.

The IntelCities elearning platform, knowledge management system and digital library for semantically-rich e-governance services. (2007)
Journal Article
Deakin, M., Allwinkle, S., Campbell, F. H., & Jesurethnam, J. P. (2007). The IntelCities elearning platform, knowledge management system and digital library for semantically-rich e-governance services. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 2, 31-38

The paper examines the architecture and services of the e-learning platform and describes how the knowledge management system designed for IntelCities is supported by the IP’s digital library. It suggests the e-Learning platform,
knowledge manageme... Read More about The IntelCities elearning platform, knowledge management system and digital library for semantically-rich e-governance services..

Research-led teaching: a review of two initiatives in valuing the link between teaching and research. (2006)
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2006). Research-led teaching: a review of two initiatives in valuing the link between teaching and research. Journal for Education in the Built Environment, 1, 73-93

Research led teaching is a matter which has recently attracted a considerable amount of
attention, particularly from those in higher education who are of the opinion that we need to
value the link between teaching and research. Examining the relati... Read More about Research-led teaching: a review of two initiatives in valuing the link between teaching and research..