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Final report - Leicester City Hall Operational Pilot

A large council building in Leicester, its central HQ called City Hall, aims to link on site renewable energy (PV) generation to electric vehicles (EVs) used by the Council staff. Leicester City Hall based staff are utilising four EVs for their work and charging these, when possible, from local renewable energy (PV) generation. This study presents the analysis of the use of four such EVs and their charging profiles that take place at the City Hall.

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Final report - Leicester City Hall Operational Pilot

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The Hackable City

This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city making, relating examples of bottom-up or participatory practices to reflections about the changing roles of professional practitioners in the processes, as well as issues of governance and institutional policymaking.

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‘Eyes of the City’ of ‘Eyes for the Citizens’?

Martijn de Waal bezocht op uitnodiging van Het Nieuwe Instituut de opening van de achtste editie van de architectuurbiënnale van Shenzhen. Naar aanleiding van zijn bezoek aan de tentoonstelling Eyes of the City schrijft hij over hoe de opkomst van camera's, AI en deep learning het leven in de stad verandert.

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SEEV4-City approach to KPI methodology

The methodology should be a uniform approach that also is flexible enough to accommodate all combinations that make up the different solutions in 6 OPs. For KPIs A and B this required the use of sub-KPIs to differentiate the effects of each (individual and combination of) implemented solutions and prevent double counting of results. This approach also helped to ensure that all 6 OPs use a common way and scope to calculate the various results. Consequently, this allowed the project to capture the results per OP and the total project in one ‘measurement results’ template. The template is used in both the individual OP reports and the ‘KPI Results: Baseline & Final results’ report where all results are accumulated; each instance providing a clear overview of what is achieved. This report outlines the details of the methodology used and applied. It is not just meant to provide a clarification of the results of the project, but is also meant to allow others who are embarking on adopting similar solutions for the purpose of CO2 reduction, becoming more energy autonomous or avoid grid stress or investments to learn about and possibly use the same methodology.

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Amsterdam film festival city

This chapter takes a closer look at the case of Amsterdam as a particular manifestation of a film festival city. Drawing from a new dataset on festivals in the Netherlands, the data supports the view of film festivals as a highly dynamic cultural sector: Internationally acclaimed film festivals exist beside smaller festivals that are more community bound; new festivals emerge annually, and young festivals struggle to survive the three-to-five-year mark.Amsterdam holds a unique position in the Dutch film festival landscape as a third of all film festivals in the Netherlands take place in the capital city. Our data collection helps to bring parts of the city’s film infrastructure to the forefront. On the one hand, Amsterdam’s top five locations for film festival events show clear creative cities logic: The data shows just how powerful the pull of such locations is. On the other hand, we find evidence of placemaking and livable city strategies: Amsterdam’s film festivals extend into the capillaries of the city.Dedicated festival datasets may cast new perspectives on local or national festival landscapes, by revealing patterns that remain hidden in qualitative and case-study based projects. But there are also challenges to address in data-driven research on festival cultures, we name a few such as categorization of data. We conclude that such challenges can be more easily faced if more datasets, of for instance, other cities, are pursued and become available.

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The city as a licence

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as blockchain have in recent years been presented as a new general-purpose technology that could underlie many aspects of social and economic life, including civics and urban governance. In an urban context, over the past few years, a number of actors have started to explore the application of distributed ledgers in amongst others smart city services as well as in blockchain for good and urban commons-projects. DLTs could become the administrative backbones of such projects, as the technology can be set-up as an administration, management and allocation tool for urban resources. With the addition of smart contracts, DLTs can further automate the processing of data and execution of decisions in urban resource management through algorithmic governance. This means that the technological set-up and design of such DLT based systems could have large implications for the ways urban resources are governed. Positive contributions are expected to be made toward (local) democracy, transparent governance, decentralization, and citizen empowerment. We argue that to fully scrutinize the implications for urban governance, a critical analysis of distributed ledger technologies is necessary. In this contribution, we explore the lens of “the city as a license” for such a critical analysis. Through this lens, the city is framed as a “rights-management-system,” operated through DLT technology. Building upon Lefebvrian a right to the city-discourses, such an approach allows to ask important questions about the implications of DLTs for the democratic governance of cities in an open, inclusive urban culture. Through a technological exploration combined with a speculative approach, and guided by our interest in the rights management and agency that blockchains have been claimed to provide to their users, we trace six important issues: quantification; blockchain as a normative apparatus; the complicated relationship between transparency and accountability; the centralizing forces that act on blockchains; the degrees to which algorithmic rules can embed democratic law-making and enforcing; and finally, the limits of blockchain's trustlessness.

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The City as a License.

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as blockchain have in recent years been presented as a new general-purpose technology that could underlie many aspects of social and economic life, including civics and urban governance. In an urban context, over the past few years, a number of actors have started to explore the application of distributed ledgers in amongst others smart city services as well as in blockchain for good and urban commons-projects. DLTs could become the administrative backbones of such projects, as the technology can be set-up as an administration, management and allocation tool for urban resources. With the addition of smart contracts, DLTs can further automate the processing of data and execution of decisions in urban resource management through algorithmic governance. This means that the technological set-up and design of such DLT based systems could have large implications for the ways urban resources are governed. Positive contributions are expected to be made toward (local) democracy, transparent governance, decentralization, and citizen empowerment. We argue that to fully scrutinize the implications for urban governance, a critical analysis of distributed ledger technologies is necessary. In this contribution, we explore the lens of “the city as a license” for such a critical analysis. Through this lens, the city is framed as a “rights-management-system,” operated through DLT technology. Building upon Lefebvrian a right to the city-discourses, such an approach allows to ask important questions about the implications of DLTs for the democratic governance of cities in an open, inclusive urban culture. Through a technological exploration combined with a speculative approach, and guided by our interest in the rights management and agency that blockchains have been claimed to provide to their users, we trace six important issues: quantification; blockchain as a normative apparatus; the complicated relationship between transparency and accountability; the centralizing forces that act on blockchains; the degrees to which algorithmic rules can embed democratic law-making and enforcing; and finally, the limits of blockchain's trustlessness.

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Case: PV generation and Electricity demand at the Johan Cruijff Arena

PV systems are used more and more. Not always is it possible to install them in the optimal direction for maximum energy output over the year. At the Johan Cruijff ArenA the PV panels are placed all around the roof in all possible directions. Panels oriented to the north will have a lower energy gain than those oriented to the south. The 42 panel groups are connected to 8 electricity meters. Of these 8 energy meters monthly kWh produced are available. The first assignment is to calculate the energy gains of the 42 panel groups, and connect these in the correct way with the 8 energy meter readings, so simulated data is in accordance with measured data.Of the year 2017 there are also main electricity meter readings available for every quarter of an hour. A problem with these readings is that only absolute values are given. When electricity is taken of the grid this is a positive reading, but when there is a surplus of solar energy and electricity is delivered to the grid, this is also a positive reading. To see the effect on the electricity demand of future energy measures, and to use the Seev4-City detailed CO2 savings calculation with the electricity mix of the grid, it is necessary to know the real electricity demand of the building.The second assignment is to use the calculations of the first assignment to separate the 15 minute electricity meter readings in that for real building demand and for PV production.This document first gives information for teachers (learning goals, possible activities, time needed, further reading), followed by the assignment for students.

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Handbook for Strategic City-University co-operation

Worldwide, there is a growing recognition that strategic partnering between cities and universities can bring substantial benefits for both sides. The big question is how to organize such partnerships successfully. This handbook offers insights, best practices and advice for leaders in cities and universities that want to go beyond “ad hoc” projects and take the next step towards a strategic and sustainable partnership. The handbook identifies promising avenues, but also barriers and pitfalls and how to avoid them. Illustrated by a rich variety of examples from European cities, the handbook provides concrete advice on the various stages of strategic city-university collaboration. This handbook intends to provide inspiring practices and guidance to develop strategic interaction between city and university, considering the complex and layered nature of both. The focus lies on the more strategic, transformational types of collaborations, that are more complex.

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Final report - Leicester City Hall Operational Pilot

The Hackable City

‘Eyes of the City’ of ‘Eyes for the Citizens’?

SEEV4-City approach to KPI methodology

Amsterdam film festival city

The city as a licence

The City as a License.

Case: PV generation and Electricity demand at the Johan Cruijff Arena

Handbook for Strategic City-University co-operation

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Critical Placemaking for Inclusive Cities.

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Final report - Leicester City Hall Operational Pilot

The Hackable City

‘Eyes of the City’ of ‘Eyes for the Citizens’?

SEEV4-City approach to KPI methodology

Amsterdam film festival city

The city as a licence

The City as a License.

Case: PV generation and Electricity demand at the Johan Cruijff Arena

Handbook for Strategic City-University co-operation

Projecten 1

Critical Placemaking for Inclusive Cities.