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Dr. Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna
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Maria-Luisa Marsal Llacuna is an Architect (2001) with two Masters (2004, 2011) and two Doctorates (2008, 2013) in the fields of urban planning and applied ICT. She worked for the government in the UK and now in Catalunya, at Government’s of Catalonia Catalan Institute of energy. Before working for public administrations, she spent fifteen years in the academia, in different research and leadership roles in public universities. Her academic career includes the creation and direction of world’s first official scientific master’s program in smart cities; several competitive and commercial research projects in the domains of smart and sustainable cities; postdoc scholarships in Germany (2006) and the USA (2011); a US patent on urban planning standards technology; and, the publication as main author of about twenty papers in top peer-reviewed academic journals. She served as UN Habitat III expert and she held two mandates as a chair at UN’s U4SSC initiative, with her second term focused on exploring blockchain applications for cities. Her expertise on blockchain for governments has awarded her with the leadership of the Barcelona Chapter at the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) and participation in GBA’s leadership advisory committee.

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Journal article
Published: 24 February 2021 in Sustainability
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Cryptourbanomics puts forward the idea that there are forces and capital in our society that cannot be dismissed or neglected but that the System (understood as the Establishment or Status-quo) has failed to acknowledge or been unable to address. These social forces have strong ideological, cultural, or identity components, sometimes related to an unrealized Right to the City (Lefèvre, 1968). The social capital behind those forces are often citizens who gave up—the so-called drop-outs because they lost their faith in the System and prefer living in their own world. Blockchain is the technology that empowers these unheard social forces and capital. However, blockchain will remain as an Anti-System technology until it finds a fit within the Establishment until the Status-quo acknowledges and ushers it. Cryptourbanomics is a novel method that brings into the blockchain those societal challenges that the System leaves unsolved. And because today’s societal challenges mostly take place in urban environments, the Cryptourbanomics method focuses on the overall urban sustainability and analyses them with a blockchain lens. The Cryptourbanomics method includes an array of blockchain tools to tackle legacy societal challenges yet unsolved by the System with a more decentralised, distributed, transparent and neutral approach. This paper shows how the Cryptourbanomics method can help deliver on Urban Sustainability by shifting powers, from the Establishment to Communities, and it showcases this with a use case within the Right to the City, that is the Right to Work.

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Maria-Luisa Marsal-Llacuna. Cryptourbanomics: A Method to Boost Urban Sustainability with Blockchain Technology. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2438 .

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Maria-Luisa Marsal-Llacuna. Cryptourbanomics: A Method to Boost Urban Sustainability with Blockchain Technology. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (5):2438.

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Maria-Luisa Marsal-Llacuna. 2021. "Cryptourbanomics: A Method to Boost Urban Sustainability with Blockchain Technology." Sustainability 13, no. 5: 2438.

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Published: 17 June 2020 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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Smart City dashboards, also known as Mayor's dashboards, are to visualise city's performance on strategic policy areas such as sustainable mobility, energy efficiency, air pollution, etc. Therefore, they use indicators and indices as quantitative means to display performance. This research studies the current delivery of strategic smart city agendas as well as current means to measure and present their performance and proposes a method that uses blockchain to reimagine both in a more empowering and collaborative manner, the so-called People's Smart City Dashboard (PSCD). The thesis of this research is that smart city agendas have failed in their promise of being citizen-centric instruments and this is due to their top-down approach. This can be reversed by using community-led technologies such as blockchain. However, this bottom-up and blockchain-based implementation of smart city agendas will require from new, people-centric measurement tools and thus the so-called Activators and Aggregators are designed as well.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. The people's smart city dashboard (PSCD): Delivering on community-led governance with blockchain. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2020, 158, 120150 .

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. The people's smart city dashboard (PSCD): Delivering on community-led governance with blockchain. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2020; 158 ():120150.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. 2020. "The people's smart city dashboard (PSCD): Delivering on community-led governance with blockchain." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 158, no. : 120150.

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Published: 23 February 2018 in Environment, Development and Sustainability
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United Nations-Habitat New Urban Agenda and European Union’s Urban Agenda are today’s international Agendas safeguarding sustainability of our cities and communities. Although in different ways, these Agendas also incorporate “smart” concepts and therefore acknowledge the important role that technology plays, especially in both delivery and implementation. However, although the incorporation of the technological element, Agenda’s sustainable policies have poor adoption and this is due to the lack of executive instruments to help their implementation. In this research, the Author proposes a novel technologically enabled executive function to better succeed in the implementation of Agendas, the so-called Policies-Actuated-Planning (PAP), and an executive instrument, the Actuators. Differently from existing Actuators that leverage on the Internet-of-Things to trigger a function on a given urban device, the proposed Actuators put a policy at work through the technological execution of urban planning interventions. Hence, the name Policies-Actuated-Planning (PAP) is given. Moreover, Actuators constitute a novel accountability system to measure the performance in the implementation of policies since they offer pioneering qualitative monitoring functionalities. Finally, to mention that the PAP relies on Author’s several times published Intelligenter Method, which is based on a bottom-up, collaborative and holistic-systemic approach to complex systems. The use of Intelligenter Method principles results in Actuator’s technologically enabled execution of city policies implemented at the lowest possible level, the community.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. How to succeed in implementing (smart) sustainable urban Agendas: “keep cities smart, make communities intelligent”. Environment, Development and Sustainability 2018, 21, 1977 -1998.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. How to succeed in implementing (smart) sustainable urban Agendas: “keep cities smart, make communities intelligent”. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 2018; 21 (4):1977-1998.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. 2018. "How to succeed in implementing (smart) sustainable urban Agendas: “keep cities smart, make communities intelligent”." Environment, Development and Sustainability 21, no. 4: 1977-1998.

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Published: 01 January 2018 in Computer Standards & Interfaces
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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. The standards evolution: A pioneering Meta-standard framework architecture as a novel self-conformity assessment and learning tool. Computer Standards & Interfaces 2018, 55, 106 -115.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. The standards evolution: A pioneering Meta-standard framework architecture as a novel self-conformity assessment and learning tool. Computer Standards & Interfaces. 2018; 55 ():106-115.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. 2018. "The standards evolution: A pioneering Meta-standard framework architecture as a novel self-conformity assessment and learning tool." Computer Standards & Interfaces 55, no. : 106-115.

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Published: 01 January 2017 in Cities
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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Mark Evan Segal. The Intelligenter Method (II) for “smarter” urban policy-making and regulation drafting. Cities 2017, 61, 83 -95.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, Mark Evan Segal. The Intelligenter Method (II) for “smarter” urban policy-making and regulation drafting. Cities. 2017; 61 ():83-95.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Mark Evan Segal. 2017. "The Intelligenter Method (II) for “smarter” urban policy-making and regulation drafting." Cities 61, no. : 83-95.

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Published: 01 November 2016 in Cities
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Highlights•Municipal facilities often do not meet spatial requirements of municipal services.•We compare municipal services in terms of their compatibility.•We calculate the degree of similarity between municipal services.•We present a method for combining compatible, municipal services into facilities.•Combination of compatible services increases efficiency and reduces public expenses. AbstractThe aim of this article is to propose and examine a quantitative method of determining the degree of compatibility between municipal services. Provision of services and facilities maintenance are usually two biggest expenditures of local governments. Traditionally, facilities host only one service, whereas the challenge and opportunity lies in combining various, compatible services and offering them together under one roof. Such a combination decreases municipal expenditure and has a strong positive impact on the general service quality. For this purpose, we take advantage of the City-block distance formula to calculate the degree of compatibility between municipal services. The method is examined and discussed on a sample of 30 real municipal services. This allows us to find possible combinations of strongly compatible services that should be offered together in Multi-Service Facilities and, at the same time, avoid an unwanted combination of services that are incompatible. Graphical abstract

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Robert Rusek; Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Ferran Torrent Fontbona; Joan Colomer Llinas. Compatibility of municipal services based on service similarity. Cities 2016, 59, 40 -47.

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Robert Rusek, Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, Ferran Torrent Fontbona, Joan Colomer Llinas. Compatibility of municipal services based on service similarity. Cities. 2016; 59 ():40-47.

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Robert Rusek; Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Ferran Torrent Fontbona; Joan Colomer Llinas. 2016. "Compatibility of municipal services based on service similarity." Cities 59, no. : 40-47.

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Published: 13 October 2016 in Computer Standards & Interfaces
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Maria-Lluisa Marsal-Llacuna; Matthew Wood-Hill. The Intelligenter method (III) for “smarter” standards development and standardisation instruments. Computer Standards & Interfaces 2016, 50, 142 -152.

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Maria-Lluisa Marsal-Llacuna, Matthew Wood-Hill. The Intelligenter method (III) for “smarter” standards development and standardisation instruments. Computer Standards & Interfaces. 2016; 50 ():142-152.

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Maria-Lluisa Marsal-Llacuna; Matthew Wood-Hill. 2016. "The Intelligenter method (III) for “smarter” standards development and standardisation instruments." Computer Standards & Interfaces 50, no. : 142-152.

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Published: 01 June 2016 in Cities
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In this paper the authors reveal the first-of-its-kind method for the design of truly smart city projects and the elaboration of smarter urban planning. The Intelligenter Method is based on the innovative idea of collaborations discovery in urban systems. The Intelligenter Method shows that what makes an urban project or a plan smart is not its sophisticated architecture or complex master planning in a technological environment, but rather qualitative and quantitative collaborations that the urban subsystem being planned or projected can establish with related subsystems, to safeguard sustainability while promoting urban development and improving resilience. The authors of this research are now sharing with the research community the Method they developed to teach intelligenter smart urban planning and projecting. This Method is also applicable to intelligenter urban policy making and regulation drafting. This second part of the methodology is published in a separate paper in this Cities issue with the title “The Intelligenter Method (II) for ‘smarter’ urban policy-making and regulation drafting”.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Mark Evan Segal. The Intelligenter Method (I) for making “smarter” city projects and plans. Cities 2016, 55, 127 -138.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, Mark Evan Segal. The Intelligenter Method (I) for making “smarter” city projects and plans. Cities. 2016; 55 ():127-138.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Mark Evan Segal. 2016. "The Intelligenter Method (I) for making “smarter” city projects and plans." Cities 55, no. : 127-138.

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Published: 26 November 2015 in Social Indicators Research
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This research explores the opportunity to use standards as recommender instruments for designing urban policy. Standards are soft regulatory mechanisms that can be used for monitoring and safeguarding. More precisely, we explore the potential use of social standards for centering the focus of the smart cities initiative back to the citizens, and establishing a citizen-centered approach. This is in contrast to the industrial drive and technological emphasis which currently dominates. Accordingly, we present a set of novel citizenship indicators which serve as the basis for the social standardization of smart cities, something which is not now taking place, in order to ensure and safeguard the basic social urban rights of citizens. The juridical basis and well-established points of reference for building indicators for citizens’ rights in the city are two International Charters. These are the European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City, and the Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City. In this paper, we start by comparing and analyzing the rights contained in each of the two Charters, and elaborating indicators for measuring the promotion and protection of these rights. The elaboration of indicators has been based on different criteria and under the common premise of universal existence of feeding data, which is the most recurrent problem when building indicators meant to be global. Next, at the request of the International Standards Organization (ISO), we select the most relevant socio-cultural indicators for the Global Charter Agenda, which will be introduced in the on-going revision of the smart cities and communities standard ISO 37120:2014 Sustainable development of communities—Indicators for city services and quality of life. This will make ISO 37120 a more beneficial social standard for monitoring and safeguarding citizens’ rights in the smart city.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. Building Universal Socio-cultural Indicators for Standardizing the Safeguarding of Citizens’ Rights in Smart Cities. Social Indicators Research 2015, 130, 563 -579.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. Building Universal Socio-cultural Indicators for Standardizing the Safeguarding of Citizens’ Rights in Smart Cities. Social Indicators Research. 2015; 130 (2):563-579.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. 2015. "Building Universal Socio-cultural Indicators for Standardizing the Safeguarding of Citizens’ Rights in Smart Cities." Social Indicators Research 130, no. 2: 563-579.

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Published: 23 August 2015 in Social Indicators Research
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The smart cities initiative encourages cities to improve their performance in the three pillars of sustainability, namely environmental, economic, and social. The smart cities movement is distinguished from sustainable cities by its use of intelligent technologies to attain sustainability. The smart cities world-class initiative is the first and only urban movement to generate interest on the part of all urban stakeholders. This includes citizens, governments, and even industry, which is the most interested party due to its opportunities to sell tech solutions and services to governments, in order to better serve citizens. However, although there are many technological means to help cities successfully perform in the three pillars of sustainability, social sustainability of smart cities is not yet fully considered. And this constitutes a lost opportunity to positively impact citizens’ lives. This research proposes a mechanism to account for the social pillar of sustainability, which consists of measuring the “citizen-centeredness” of city policies and local governance. This citizen-centric approach is measured by monitoring performance of cities in safeguarding citizenship rights. Accordingly, a set of indicators measuring the safeguarding of citizens’ rights in the city included in its fundamental text, The European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City, has been elaborated. Acknowledging the potential of market standards promoted by national and international standardization bodies such as the International Standards Organization or the National Standardization Association in Spain, proposed indicators have been designed to serve as a basis for what could be the first-ever social standard. Since market standards have an econometric nature, this research has been carried out in total fairness to city council responsibilities, only accounting for those which are mandatory, for which a budget is assigned. Finally, in the last section of the paper, conclusions show the triple-win—for citizens, private stakeholders, and city councils, that the inclusion of social standards brings into the governance of cities.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. City Indicators on Social Sustainability as Standardization Technologies for Smarter (Citizen-Centered) Governance of Cities. Social Indicators Research 2015, 128, 1193 -1216.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. City Indicators on Social Sustainability as Standardization Technologies for Smarter (Citizen-Centered) Governance of Cities. Social Indicators Research. 2015; 128 (3):1193-1216.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. 2015. "City Indicators on Social Sustainability as Standardization Technologies for Smarter (Citizen-Centered) Governance of Cities." Social Indicators Research 128, no. 3: 1193-1216.

Conference paper
Published: 20 June 2015 in Computer Vision
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Since the end of 2014 a definition on “smart cities” agreed by international standardization bodies exists. As commonly said in the business community, ‘measurement is the first step leading to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it’ (H. James Harrington). Therefore, if we want to understand what the smart cities initiative is all about we have to start measuring its brand new definition. After that we’ll be able to monitor and control the performance of cities in terms of smartness, and this will lead to the possibility of improvement. In this research we present a set of indicators that specifically serve to measure the newly agreed and acknowledged international definition on smart cities. This set of indicators will be now tested to measure the smartness of the city of Girona, a small-medium sized city in Spain. At the completion of this pilot we’ll be able to design an index summarizing the set (or subsets) of indicators, as a future steps of this research. A summarizing index will help to get an overview and to understand the overall performance of a city in terms of smartness. Then, targeted actions should be undertaken according to the results revealed by the specific indicators so that the overall smartness can be improved.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. Measuring the Standardized Definition of “smart city”: A Proposal on Global Metrics to Set the Terms of Reference for Urban “smartness”. Computer Vision 2015, 593 -611.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. Measuring the Standardized Definition of “smart city”: A Proposal on Global Metrics to Set the Terms of Reference for Urban “smartness”. Computer Vision. 2015; ():593-611.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. 2015. "Measuring the Standardized Definition of “smart city”: A Proposal on Global Metrics to Set the Terms of Reference for Urban “smartness”." Computer Vision , no. : 593-611.

Conference paper
Published: 20 June 2015 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The smart cities initiative does not consist of filling our cities with tech gadgets, cameras and sensors for the purpose of monitoring and controlling both citizens and urban environment. The smart cities movement is not a marketplace for companies and businesses to sell their ICT products and services to governments. The smart cities objective is not to target the use of urban technology as an end in itself but as a tool towards more citizen-centric cities. Therefore, smart cities are not a big brother watching citizens but an inclusive and participatory arena for local governments and all interested stakeholders (including citizens) to co-create communities that can offer development opportunities to everyone and quality of live, no matter social group, age, or gender. This is the true objective of smart cities, which sometimes gets lost, forgotten or becomes shadowed by an excess of technology. But, how to achieve such a challenging objective? Fortunately, just recently, a definition on smart cities has been agreed by international standardization bodies which, so far, are the ones paving the way regarding concepts, terminology and general understanding of the smart cities movement. This novel definition builds on the sustainability concept, promotes urban development in good harmony with resilience, and uses technology only as a way for cities to measure their smartness and improve their performance. The author, aware of the big step forward that this internationally acknowledged definition is, takes the opportunity that this new piece of formally structured knowledge offers to elaborate a first-of-a-kind framework to conceptualize, model and simulate sustainability, and its practical implementation while promoting urban development and resilience to achieve higher performance levels of urban smartness.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. Conceptualizing, Modeling and Simulating Sustainability as Tools to Implement Urban Smartness. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2015, 477 -494.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. Conceptualizing, Modeling and Simulating Sustainability as Tools to Implement Urban Smartness. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2015; ():477-494.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna. 2015. "Conceptualizing, Modeling and Simulating Sustainability as Tools to Implement Urban Smartness." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 477-494.

Research article
Published: 06 April 2015 in Time & Society
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Traditional urban planning methodologies cannot solve today’s planning challenges that cities pose. Citizens’ needs have substantially changed the last decade while urban planning methods have remained the same since the 70s. A more citizen-centric urban planning is presented in this paper. To that end, and to effectively deal with citizens’ larger data needed for the urban planning methodological reinvention, interdisciplinary work is supported with information and communication technologies. We conducted a survey of citizens on urban time-use (Marsal MLl and López MB (2014) Smart urban planning: Designing urban-land-use from urban time-use. Journal of Urban Technology 21(1): 39–54). The results on urban-time-use distribution were converted into urban-land-uses as pioneering methodology for the reinvention of urban planning methodologies. In order to get the highest voluntary participation from citizens to ensure a good representation of all ages and social groups, the survey has to be designed with adaptive hypermedia techniques. The adaptive hypermedia techniques we propose in this paper combine stereotype and feature-based models which we explore for the purpose to include them in the survey. The combination of stereotype and feature-based models has different advantages, among others: stereotype techniques avoid to initiate survey profiles from scratch and feature-based techniques allow a personalized questionnaire to be employed. Moreover, personalization, in combination with user profiles, allows prediction which is of great interest for this research due to its planning purposes.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Ramon Fabregat-Gesa. Modeling citizens’ urban time-use using adaptive hypermedia surveys to obtain an urban planning, citizen-centric, methodological reinvention. Time & Society 2015, 25, 272 -294.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, Ramon Fabregat-Gesa. Modeling citizens’ urban time-use using adaptive hypermedia surveys to obtain an urban planning, citizen-centric, methodological reinvention. Time & Society. 2015; 25 (2):272-294.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Ramon Fabregat-Gesa. 2015. "Modeling citizens’ urban time-use using adaptive hypermedia surveys to obtain an urban planning, citizen-centric, methodological reinvention." Time & Society 25, no. 2: 272-294.

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Published: 01 January 2015 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Joan Colomer; Joaquim Melendez. Lessons in urban monitoring taken from sustainable and livable cities to better address the Smart Cities initiative. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2015, 90, 611 -622.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, Joan Colomer, Joaquim Melendez. Lessons in urban monitoring taken from sustainable and livable cities to better address the Smart Cities initiative. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2015; 90 ():611-622.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Joan Colomer; Joaquim Melendez. 2015. "Lessons in urban monitoring taken from sustainable and livable cities to better address the Smart Cities initiative." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 90, no. : 611-622.

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Published: 02 January 2014 in Journal of Urban Technology
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In the context of the Smart City Initiative, we present in this paper a pioneering Smart Urban Planning Method to reformulate the planning values used for designing and establishing the distribution and use of urban land. The new planning values for urban design are obtained from an innovative conversion rule which transforms the daily distribution of urban time use into quantities of urban land use. The opinions of citizens concerning how to cover their urban needs and associated time use allocation are used to establish equivalence results, and recalibrate and improve current urban land use. In addition, our method stimulates and inspires public participation in the urban planning approval process, changing citizens from passive valuators to active partners and designers.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Beatriz López. Smart Urban Planning: Designing Urban Land Use from Urban Time Use. Journal of Urban Technology 2014, 21, 39 -56.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, Beatriz López. Smart Urban Planning: Designing Urban Land Use from Urban Time Use. Journal of Urban Technology. 2014; 21 (1):39-56.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Beatriz López. 2014. "Smart Urban Planning: Designing Urban Land Use from Urban Time Use." Journal of Urban Technology 21, no. 1: 39-56.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2013 in Computer Vision
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Urban information for urban planning is usually represented in the form of statistics, indicators, and indexes which can be visualized in graphics, maps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 3D images, and simulations. Cities use urban information portfolios for planning purposes but, unfortunately, these are usually represented separately and visualized in independent tools. This leads to complex and time-consuming information management requirements and data redundancies. To the best of our knowledge, there have never been any attempts to represent and visualize the urban information portfolio of a city in a single or unitary piece of software. Our proposal is a tool – 3D-VUPID - which integrates information representation and visualization in urban planning. The tool is designed to converge, organize, and map all urban information related to the urban planning activity in a common framework and to depict it in a simple, understandable way. Additionally, 3D-VUPID provides customized updates and gathers available open data and mobile internet anonymous data.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Immaculada Boada-Oliveras. 3D-VUPID: 3D Visual Urban Planning Integrated Data. Computer Vision 2013, 17 -32.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, Immaculada Boada-Oliveras. 3D-VUPID: 3D Visual Urban Planning Integrated Data. Computer Vision. 2013; ():17-32.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Immaculada Boada-Oliveras. 2013. "3D-VUPID: 3D Visual Urban Planning Integrated Data." Computer Vision , no. : 17-32.

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Published: 01 January 2013 in Computer Vision
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Our Model is designed to greatly increase public participation in urban planning and make it more citizen-friendly. We use an agent technology consisting of a pair of opinion-miner recommender agents which, through mining of the opinions of citizens, make recommendations to planners on the design of the master plan. The advantages of using recommender agent technology in our DSS Model are that it accelerates acceptance of planning proposals and creates more participatory urban planning. A particularly innovative feature of our Model is that public participation occurs both before and during the development of the master plan, and in a citizen-friendly way. With our Model, planners come up with citizen-sensitive proposals and are able to more accurately predict the reaction of citizens to them. The case of the redesign of the Diagonal Avenue in Barcelona is provided as a concluding example.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Josep-Lluís De La Rosa-Esteva. The Representation for All Model: An Agent-Based Collaborative Method for More Meaningful Citizen Participation in Urban Planning. Computer Vision 2013, 324 -339.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, Josep-Lluís De La Rosa-Esteva. The Representation for All Model: An Agent-Based Collaborative Method for More Meaningful Citizen Participation in Urban Planning. Computer Vision. 2013; ():324-339.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Josep-Lluís De La Rosa-Esteva. 2013. "The Representation for All Model: An Agent-Based Collaborative Method for More Meaningful Citizen Participation in Urban Planning." Computer Vision , no. : 324-339.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2011 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Urban Planning defines land distribution and regulates land use in cities, with the objective to foster economic development and ensure quality of life. Current planning practices often fail to consider citizen needs. They lack the objectivity that is needed to balance public and private interests. And public facilities’ planning tends to work in isolation from public services programming, leading to unsatisfactory and inefficient service provision. In moments of economic downturn, public services are on the verge of a crisis. In response, we put forward a citizen-centric, systematic and analytical approach to urban planning. Using Catalonia in Spain as an example, we discuss the above issues and how the new approach is designed to address them.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Ying Tat Leung; Guang-Jie Ren. Smarter Urban Planning: Match Land Use with Citizen Needs and Financial Constraints. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2011, 6783, 93 -108.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, Ying Tat Leung, Guang-Jie Ren. Smarter Urban Planning: Match Land Use with Citizen Needs and Financial Constraints. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2011; 6783 ():93-108.

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Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna; Ying Tat Leung; Guang-Jie Ren. 2011. "Smarter Urban Planning: Match Land Use with Citizen Needs and Financial Constraints." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 6783, no. : 93-108.