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Drawing on the ideas of participatory urbanism, this chapter argues for the potential of social media data to enable more interactive and responsive planning and collaboration between citizens, experts, and public officials. Focusing on a data-driven approach to collaborative planning, the chapter highlights the advantage of multiplicity and diversity of participants in non-linear processes of collaboration through online platforms. Presenting a case study of online engagement with the development of “parklets”, this chapter illustrates how social media data analytics can be utilised to better understand the dynamics of open and complex collaboration in the context of urban planning and governance. These insights offer enabling strategies for city officials to become involved in and contribute to civic conversations and actions of individual citizens and local communities.
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Rahmat, H. (2020). Open Online Platforms and the Collaborative Production of Micro Urban Spaces: Towards an Architecture of Civic Engagement. In: Hawken, S., Han, H., Pettit, C. (eds) Open Cities | Open Data. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6605-5_5
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