Abstract
This chapter introduces the ethos and approach to Shaping Smart for Better Cities and highlights the main overarching themes that have emerged from the chapters. It starts from a declaration of the effort and multidisciplinary challenge the editors have set, by bringing the overall theme into the nonproprietary territory of reflecting on “better places” rather than on discipline-specific issues. Doing this has allowed this collection to be diverse and pluralistic. It has also foregrounded a series of important and general issues and needs in the search for a more holistic and comprehensive perspective on the making of smart place. These include the crucial need for a deep and meaningful grounding of smart initiatives within their already existing spatial and social context, shaping place as a whole. This in turn can be looked at from the designer’s viewpoint and from a community coproduction perspective, and the volume is organized along these two very much inseparable sides of the same, placemaking coin.
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