Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
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Urban Observatories in the Midst of COVID-19: Challenges & Responses
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, urban observatories have demonstrated their value, but also highlighted the challenges for boundary institutions between knowledge generation and decision-making in a variety of different ways. We aim here to capture some of their voices in a time of crisis. The Connected Cities Lab, in collaboration with University College London and UN-Habitat, and in dialogue with a variety of urban research institutions around the planet, has been working since 2018 to develop a review of the challenges and values of and challenges for ‘urban observatories’. That project aims to present evidence on the boundary-spanning roles of these institutions, capturing the ways in which they bridge information in and about their cities and the potential value they offer to urban governance. As the COVID-19 crisis took hold across cities and continents in early 2020, it became apparent that this study could not prescind from a closer look at how these observatories had both been coping with, but also responding to, the pandemic. This resulted in a series of additional interviews, document reviews and a twopart virtual workshop in August 2020 with observatories, and urban research institutions performing observatory functions, to give further voice to these experiences. As a background to this ‘deep’ dive into the reality of COVID-19 for observatories, the overall study underpinning this working paper has relied on, first, desktop research on publicly available information to identify thirty-two cases of either explicitlynamed ‘urban observatories’ or else urban research institutions performing ‘observatory-like’ functions. This research was then coupled with a series of interviews with experts and senior staff from these observatories to ground truth initial considerations as well as to capture how the processes of boundary-spanning worked beyond the publicly available persona of each observatory. We then referred back to these thirty-two cases and selected a sample of fourteen for specific ...
Urban Observatories in the Midst of COVID-19: Challenges & Responses
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, urban observatories have demonstrated their value, but also highlighted the challenges for boundary institutions between knowledge generation and decision-making in a variety of different ways. We aim here to capture some of their voices in a time of crisis. The Connected Cities Lab, in collaboration with University College London and UN-Habitat, and in dialogue with a variety of urban research institutions around the planet, has been working since 2018 to develop a review of the challenges and values of and challenges for ‘urban observatories’. That project aims to present evidence on the boundary-spanning roles of these institutions, capturing the ways in which they bridge information in and about their cities and the potential value they offer to urban governance. As the COVID-19 crisis took hold across cities and continents in early 2020, it became apparent that this study could not prescind from a closer look at how these observatories had both been coping with, but also responding to, the pandemic. This resulted in a series of additional interviews, document reviews and a twopart virtual workshop in August 2020 with observatories, and urban research institutions performing observatory functions, to give further voice to these experiences. As a background to this ‘deep’ dive into the reality of COVID-19 for observatories, the overall study underpinning this working paper has relied on, first, desktop research on publicly available information to identify thirty-two cases of either explicitlynamed ‘urban observatories’ or else urban research institutions performing ‘observatory-like’ functions. This research was then coupled with a series of interviews with experts and senior staff from these observatories to ground truth initial considerations as well as to capture how the processes of boundary-spanning worked beyond the publicly available persona of each observatory. We then referred back to these thirty-two cases and selected a sample of fourteen for specific ...
Urban Observatories in the Midst of COVID-19: Challenges & Responses
Dickey, A (Autor:in) / Acuto, M (Autor:in) / Washbourne, C-L (Autor:in)
01.12.2020
Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne: Melbourne, Australia.
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Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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720