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Digital Meets Smart: Towards a Technology-Enhanced Approach to Smart Specialisation Strategy Development (2022)
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Mora, L., Panori, A., Deakin, M., & Ortega-Argiles, R. (2022). Digital Meets Smart: Towards a Technology-Enhanced Approach to Smart Specialisation Strategy Development. Regional Studies, 56(9), 1421-1428. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2091775

Conceived in the framework of regional studies on Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) development, this special issue strengthens research efforts oriented towards assembling a technology-enhanced approach to S3 policymaking. First, it sheds light on... Read More about Digital Meets Smart: Towards a Technology-Enhanced Approach to Smart Specialisation Strategy Development.

Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices: The RIS3 and EDP of a Higher-Order Policy Model (2022)
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Deakin, M. (2022). Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices: The RIS3 and EDP of a Higher-Order Policy Model. Triple Helix, 9(1), 32-42. https://doi.org/10.1163/21971927-bja10030

In the past decade there have been a series of articles on the status of Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices. In responding to the most recent of these from Leydesdorff and Lawson Smith (2022), this article examines the respective status of the Tri... Read More about Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices: The RIS3 and EDP of a Higher-Order Policy Model.

Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation (2020)
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Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Mora, L. (2020). Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation. Journal of Urban Technology, 27(4), 59-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2020.1868738

This paper closes a gap in the literature on smart cities relating to the metrics of future Internet-based developments. It achieves this by presenting the findings of a case study that overcomes the methodological shortcomings that otherwise exist i... Read More about Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation.

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective (2020)
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Mora, L., Deakin, M., Zhang, X., Batty, M., de Jong, M., Santi, P., & Appio, F. P. (2021). Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology, 28(1-2), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2020.1834831

This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some of the foundational assumptions underpinning transition management and syste... Read More about Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective.

Exploring Current Trends in Scientific Research on Smart Specialisation (2019)
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Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Exploring Current Trends in Scientific Research on Smart Specialisation. Scienze Regionali-The Italian Journal of Regional Science, 18(3), 397-422. https://doi.org/10.14650/94657

This paper describes current trends in scientific research on Smart Specialisation by answering the following questions: (1) How many scientific publications on Smart Specialisation have been produced since this concept emerged and what are their cha... Read More about Exploring Current Trends in Scientific Research on Smart Specialisation.

How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study (2018)
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Mora, L., Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Angelidou, M. (2019). How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study. Journal of Urban Technology, 26(2), 89-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2018.1525265

Overcoming the dichotomous nature of smart city research is fundamental to providing cities with a clear understanding of how smart city development should be approached. This paper introduces a research methodology for conducting the multiple-case s... Read More about How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study.

Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities (2018)
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Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142, 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.019

Bibliometrics is a powerful tool for analyzing knowledge domains and revealing their cognitive-epistemological structure. Different mathematical models and statistical techniques have been proposed and tested to carry out bibliometric analyses and de... Read More about Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities.

Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices (2018)
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Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142, 70-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.035

Recent studies reveal a deep-rooted division in research on smart cities, which surfaces as a set of dichotomies that question whether smart city development should be based on a: (1) technology-led or holistic strategy; (2) double or quadruple-helix... Read More about Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices.

Smart Cities: Metrics for a Future Internet-based Governance of Urban and Regional innovation Systems (2018)
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Deakin, M. (2018). Smart Cities: Metrics for a Future Internet-based Governance of Urban and Regional innovation Systems. Scienze Regionali-The Italian Journal of Regional Science, 17(1), 39-56. https://doi.org/10.14650/88816

This paper summarizes the outcomes of a literature review on smart cities and goes on to provide an overview of the critical insights it offers. Bypassing mainstream academic readings of the subject and offering a critique of the Smart City Ranking,... Read More about Smart Cities: Metrics for a Future Internet-based Governance of Urban and Regional innovation Systems.

The embedded intelligence of smart cities: urban life, citizenship and community (2017)
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Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2017). The embedded intelligence of smart cities: urban life, citizenship and community. International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age, 4(4), 62-74. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJPADA.2017100105

This paper reviews Mitchell’s thesis on the transition from the city of bits to e-topia. The review finds it wanting and suggests the problems encountered with the thesis rest with the lack of critical insight e-topia offers into the embedded intelli... Read More about The embedded intelligence of smart cities: urban life, citizenship and community.

The First Two Decades of Smart-City Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (2017)
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Mora, L., Bolici, R., & Deakin, M. (2017). The First Two Decades of Smart-City Research: A Bibliometric Analysis. Journal of Urban Technology, 24(1), 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2017.1285123

This paper reports on the first two decades of research on smart cities by conducting a bibliometric analysis of the literature published between 1992 and 2012. The analysis shows that smart city research is fragmented and lacks cohesion, and its gro... Read More about The First Two Decades of Smart-City Research: A Bibliometric Analysis.

Smart cities: Under-gridding the sustainability of city-districts as energy efficient-low carbon zones (2016)
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Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2018). Smart cities: Under-gridding the sustainability of city-districts as energy efficient-low carbon zones. Journal of Cleaner Production, 173, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.054

This paper reviews the literature on smart cities. Offering a critical synthesis of the material, it advances a Triple Helix inspired account of smart cities as future internet-based developments. In particular, as future internet-based developments... Read More about Smart cities: Under-gridding the sustainability of city-districts as energy efficient-low carbon zones.

The census as an information source in public policy-making (2016)
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Killick, L., Hall, H., Duff, A. S., & Deakin, M. (2016). The census as an information source in public policy-making. Journal of Information Science, 42(3), 386-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551516628471

This paper provides an assessment of the value of national population censuses as information sources with specific reference to UK census data and its use in policy-making. Mixed methods were adopted to collect quantitative and qualitative data fro... Read More about The census as an information source in public policy-making.

From The City Of Bits to E-Topia: Space, Citizenship and Community as Global Strategy. (2014)
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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..

Smart cities: the state-of-the-art and governance challenge (2014)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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..

The embedded intelligence of smart cities (2011)
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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.

The triple-helix model of smart cities: a neo evolutionary perspective. (2011)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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..

The IntelCities community of practice. (2006)
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Deakin, M., & Allwinkle, S. (2006). The IntelCities community of practice. International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations: Annual Review, 6, 155-162

Sets out the integrated community model of electronically enhanced governance services developed by IntelCities to represent its e-Learning platform, knowledge management system and digital library.

Citizens' expectations of information cities: implications for urban planning and design (2005)
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Curwell, S., Deakin, M., Cooper, I., Paskaleva-Shapira, K., Ravetz, J., & Babicki, D. (2005). Citizens' expectations of information cities: implications for urban planning and design. Building Research and Information, 33(1), 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/0961321042000329422

The European Union has made the development of a vibrant knowledge-based economy a key policy objective, and increasingly national and local governments worldwide are seeking to harness information and communication technologies to provide government... Read More about Citizens' expectations of information cities: implications for urban planning and design.

The IntelCities learning platform, knowledge management system and digital library for semantically interoperable e-governance services. (2005)
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Deakin, M., Allwinkle, S., Campbell, F. H., & Wong, C. (2005). The IntelCities learning platform, knowledge management system and digital library for semantically interoperable e-governance services. International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations: Annual Review, 6, 155-162

Sets out the integrated community model of electronically enhanced governance services developed by IntelCities to represent its e-Learning platform, knowledge management system and digital library.

Developing sustainable communities: Edinburgh's settlement model and design solution (2003)
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Deakin, M. (2003). Developing sustainable communities: Edinburgh's settlement model and design solution. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 5(4), 551-573. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1464333203001498

Sustainable communities are seen as offering the opportunity to manage growth in plan-led and environmentally-friendly patterns of settlement. This paper examines the settlement model put forward for the development of sustainable communities in the... Read More about Developing sustainable communities: Edinburgh's settlement model and design solution.

Developing sustainable communities in Edinburgh’s South East Wedge: The settlement model and design solution. (2003)
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Deakin, M. (2003). Developing sustainable communities in Edinburgh’s South East Wedge: The settlement model and design solution. Journal of Urban Design, 8(2), 137-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574800306481

Sustainable communities are seen as offering the opportunity to manage growth in plan-led and environmentally friendly patterns of settlement. The settlement model put forward and design solution for the development of sustainable communities in the... Read More about Developing sustainable communities in Edinburgh’s South East Wedge: The settlement model and design solution..

Modelling the development of sustainable communities in Edinburgh's South East wedge. (2002)
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Deakin, M. (2002). Modelling the development of sustainable communities in Edinburgh's South East wedge. Planning Practice and Research, 17(3), 331-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/026974502200005670

The on—going review of structure plans in the United Kingdom (UK) has highlighted the attractiveness of new settlements as an alternative to town cramming, peripheral expansion and urban sprawl. This paper examines the argument for new settlemen... Read More about Modelling the development of sustainable communities in Edinburgh's South East wedge..

Sustainable urban development: the framework and directory of assessment methods. (2002)
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Deakin, M., Curwell, S., & Lombardi, P. (2002). Sustainable urban development: the framework and directory of assessment methods. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 4(2), 171-197. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1464333202000978

Sustainable development is an issue that has attracted a considerable amount of academic interest since the publication of the Brundtland Report. With Agenda 21, it is an issue which has also found its way into the policy and action programmes of the... Read More about Sustainable urban development: the framework and directory of assessment methods..

The assessment of sustainable urban development. (2002)
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Deakin, M., Huovila, P., Rao, S., Sunikka, M., & Vreeker, R. (2002). The assessment of sustainable urban development. Building Research and Information, 30(2), 95-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/096132102753436477

This paper describes the outcomes of a survey of assessment methods for sustainable urban development (SUD) undertaken by an international network called BEQUEST. It addresses aspects of good practice in terms of SUD, explores the range of methods av... Read More about The assessment of sustainable urban development..

A vision and methodology for integrated sustainable urban development: BEQUEST (2002)
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Bentivegna, V., Curwell, S., Deakin, M., Lombardi, P., Mitchell, G., & Nijkamp, P. (2002). A vision and methodology for integrated sustainable urban development: BEQUEST. Building Research and Information, 30(2), 83-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/096132102753436468

The concepts and visions of sustainable development that have emerged in the post-Brundtland era are explored in terms laying the foundations for a common vision of sustainable urban development (SUD). The described vision and methodology for SUD res... Read More about A vision and methodology for integrated sustainable urban development: BEQUEST.

BEQUEST: the framework and directory of assessment methods. (2001)
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Deakin, M., Curwell, S., & Lombardi, P. (2001). BEQUEST: the framework and directory of assessment methods. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 6(6), 373-383. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02978869

This paper has outlined the areas of the Environment and Climate Programme (Economic and Social Aspects of Human Settlement) the BEQUEST project addresses. It has also examined the framework for analysis the project sets out for a common understandin... Read More about BEQUEST: the framework and directory of assessment methods..

Valuation, appraisal, discounting, obsolescence and depreciation: Towards a life cycle analysis and impact assessment of their effects on the environment of cities (1999)
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Deakin, M. (1999). Valuation, appraisal, discounting, obsolescence and depreciation: Towards a life cycle analysis and impact assessment of their effects on the environment of cities. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 4(2), 87-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02979408

Previous editions of this journal have drawn attention to the critical role valuation plays in life cycle analysis and environmental impact assessment (see for example Volkwein and Klopffer [1]. In particular, the critical role of valuation has be... Read More about Valuation, appraisal, discounting, obsolescence and depreciation: Towards a life cycle analysis and impact assessment of their effects on the environment of cities.

The development of computer based information systems for local authority property management: the underlying issues. (1998)
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Deakin, M. (1998). The development of computer based information systems for local authority property management: the underlying issues. Property Management, 16(2), 61-82. https://doi.org/10.1108/02637479810214114

The paper examines how a property management division has sought to adopt the recommendations of the Audit Commission and Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy reports on local authority property management, and measures the democrati... Read More about The development of computer based information systems for local authority property management: the underlying issues..

The financial aspects of property management: the case of Kiev City (1997)
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Deakin, M. (1997). The financial aspects of property management: the case of Kiev City. Journal of Property Finance, 8(1), 52-82. https://doi.org/10.1108/09588689710160516

Outlines the attempts made over the past few years to develop the financial services required by Kiev City Council to function as a privatization authority. Looks at the privatization programme, the authority responsible for the transfer of ownership... Read More about The financial aspects of property management: the case of Kiev City.

The property management division of Kiev City (1996)
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Deakin, M. (1996). The property management division of Kiev City. Property Management, 14(4), 15-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/02637479610150739

Outlines the attempts made over the past few years to develop the financial services required by Kiev City council’s property management division to function as a privatization authority - to develop, that is, what is referred to as the financial asp... Read More about The property management division of Kiev City.