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E3: Mapping Values: Co-constructing understandings of the good city in pursuit of new models of urban governance

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Description

Current thinking suggests that once vaccinations successfully roll out, ‘post-pandemic’ cities will come back to life. By contrast this proposition is that the resilient city is pandemic-ready, not simply post-pandemic. The project will use citizen science mapping to gather and explore the affective values people ascribe to being in public and with other people, across a city. It will focus on two value indexes: health and inclusivity. By combining ‘public participatory GIS’, transec walks, focus grouping, and oral histories, it will produce a rounded dataset for one pilot area of a city. Co-creation workshops will be held throughout, with a final workshop on policy translation in the pilot area to co-create better governance. This project will effectively explore whether better urban governance is achievable with better understandings of how people feel about urban space.

The project involves an interdisciplinary team of researchers – Dr David Hitchcock, Canterbury Christ Church University; Dr Mirian Calvo, Lancaster University; Dr Duncan Hay, University College London; Dr Elmé Vivier, Nottingham Trent University; Professor Jeremy Crampton, Newcastle University; Dr. Isabel Williams, Newcastle University; Dr Carina O’Reilly, University of Lincoln.

Layperson's description

The project explores whether better urban governance is achievable with a better understanding of how people perceive “good” places within their immediate urban tissue. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team with the relevant expertise and collects data using triangularisation of interdisciplinary methods.

Key findings

Outlined in Short Report (research output)
Short titleMapping Values
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/04/2131/07/22

Funding

  • The British Academy: £4,000.00

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