Participatory mapping studies during the pandemic

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The covid-19 pandemic raised great interest to study the consequences of it on green space use, outdoor recreation and mobility in cities through participatory mapping methods. Below we have collected scientific articles that have been published recently. There might be even more!

  • Samuelsson, K., Barthel, S., Giusti, M. and Hartig, T., 2021. Visiting nearby natural settings supported wellbeing during Sweden’s “soft-touch” pandemic restrictions. Landscape and Urban Planning, 214, p.104176. doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.10417
  • Bohman, H., Ryan, J., Stjernborg, V. and Nilsson, D., 2021. A study of changes in everyday mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic: As perceived by people living in Malmö, Sweden. Transport policy, 106, pp.109-119. doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.03.013
  • Korpilo, S., Kajosaari, A., Rinne, T., Hasanzadeh, K., Raymond, C.M. and Kyttä, M., 2021. Coping with crisis: green space use in Helsinki before and during COVID-19. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, p.99. dx.doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.713977
  • Fagerholm, N., Eilola, S. and Arki, V., 2021. Outdoor recreation and nature’s contribution to well-being in a pandemic situation-Case Turku, Finland. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 64, p.127257. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127257
  • Hansen, A.S., Beery, T., Fredman, P. and Wolf-Watz, D., 2022. Outdoor recreation in Sweden during and after the Covid-19 pandemic–management and policy implications. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, pp.1-22. dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2022.2029736
  • Legeby, A., Koch D., Duarte, F., Heine, C., Benson, T., Fugigliando, U and Ratti, C., 2022. New urban habits in Stockholm following COVID-19. Urban Studies. doi.org/10.1177/00420980211070677.

covid-16, PPGIS

Reminder about the first PMAP webinar May 24th 3:30-4:30 pm CET time

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Welcome to join PMAP a webinar series!

The first webinar takes place on Tuesday May 24th 3:30-4:30 pm CET time (4:30 pm Helsinki, London 2:30 pm, New York 9:30 am, Tokyo 10:30 pm).

Jirka Panek and Ian Babelon will present on 100+ shades of geoparticipation.

Dr. Jirka Panek works as an associate professor at the Department of Development and Environmental Studies, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. With background in geography and GIS, he has been enthusiastic about developing participatory mapping methods both in global North and South and has been co-developing participatory platform for collection perceptions about urban environment. Dr. Ian Babelon is Research Fellow at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. His PhD investigated the use of digital tools for public participation in urban planning. Recently, Ian, Jirka and colleagues published an article (doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10110783) reviewing objectives of 25 web-based geoparticipation projects in urban planning.

Please join via Zoom to this webinar at utu.zoom.us/j/68664371764 (passcode: 506809). No pre-registration is required!

In case you have interest to present in this biannual webinar series, please do not hesitate to contact Associate Professor Nora Fagerholm (nora.fagerholm@utu.fi).

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PMAP launches a webinar series

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Dear Participatory Mapping Institute members,

PMAP will launch a webinar series to share recent research results, knowledge and experience among our expert community!

We are glad to announce that the first webinar takes place on Tuesday May 24th 3:30-4:30 pm CET time (4:30 pm Helsinki, London 2:30 pm, New York 9:30 am, Tokyo 10:30 pm).

Jirka Panek and Ian Babelon will present on 100+ shades of geoparticipation.

Dr. Jirka Panek works as an associate professor at the Department of Development and Environmental Studies, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. With background in geography and GIS, he has been enthusiastic about developing participatory mapping methods both in global North and South and has been co-developing participatory platform for collection perceptions about urban environment. Dr. Ian Babelon is Research Fellow at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. His PhD investigated the use of digital tools for public participation in urban planning. Recently, Ian, Jirka and colleagues published an article (doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10110783) reviewing objectives of 25 web-based geoparticipation projects in urban planning.

Please join via Zoom to this webinar at utu.zoom.us/j/68664371764 (passcode: 506809). No pre-registration is required!

In case you have interest to present in this biannual webinar series, please do not hesitate to contact Associate Professor Nora Fagerholm (nora.fagerholm@utu.fi).

Sincerely,

PMAP hosts

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Using community surveys with participatory mapping to monitor comprehensive plan implementation

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Comprehensive or general plans are long-range documents intended to guide future urban or regional land use, growth, and development. Structured and periodic monitoring and evaluation of plan implementation is important to identifying when plans should be revised or updated based on changed planning assumptions or conditions, but such monitoring is uncommon. In this study we present and illustrate a research-based method to evaluate general plan implementation for a case-study community located in central California. A community survey was combined with participatory mapping to assess continued public approval of key elements of the general plan: 1) residential growth, 2) community development needs, 3) preferred locations for development (spatial), 4) consistency of resident land use preferences with general plan categories (spatial), and 5) areas with the greatest potential for land use conflict (spatial). Over the five-year period following plan adoption, there was relatively little change in general resident preferences for residential growth or the perceived need for new types of urban development, with the exception of affordable housing; however, city approval of three large, mixed-use development projects, while nominally conforming to the plan, generated community conflict based on development scale and location. As a novel plan monitoring and evaluation method, a community survey combined with participatory mapping provides a means to assess consistency with plan assumptions, desired conditions, and goals and can proactively identify the potential for place-based conflicts among various interests to identify optimized community land use outcomes.

 

For more information see: Brown, G., Kyttä, M., Reed, P. (2022). Using community surveys with participatory mapping to monitor comprehensive plan implementation. Landscape and Urban Planning doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104306

 

California, participatory mapping, urban planning

How to combine participatory mapping and other sensing systems in support of urban sustainability transformation

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Members of the Participatory Mapping Institute have just published a journal article on “Harnessing sensing systems towards urban sustainability transformation”.  This paper presents a novel set of conceptual frameworks to show how participatory mapping, classed as an active sensing system, could be combined with passive sensing systems like big data collated from social media  to secure an inclusive, sustainable and resilient urban transformation. The paper derives principles for sustainability planning, including an iterative dialogue along a sensing loop, new modes of governance enabling direct feeding of sensed information, an account for data biases in the sensing processes and a commitment to high ethical standards, including open access data sharing.

For the full text see: Grêt-Regamey, A., Switalski, M., Fagerholm, N. et al. Harnessing sensing systems towards urban sustainability transformation. npj Urban Sustain 1, 40 (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00042-w

active sensing, big data, participatory mapping, passive sensing, social media

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