Open City: Applying Participatory Planning Theory to Open Data Initiatives
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Title
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Open City: Applying Participatory Planning Theory to Open Data Initiatives
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Description
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Open data initiatives are nearly a decade old and are purported to foster government transparency, public accessibility, and civic engagement; the open data portal is the material expression of these initiatives and is the object of study for my thesis. My hypothesis is that civic engagement is a highly cited goal but is rarely a feature on portals. I include a review of transparency and accessibility as points of comparison to engagement through a content analysis of 68 municipal open data portals. The resultant findings confirm this hypothesis. Subsequently, I discuss the existing limitations and imagine ways planning theory and planners can improve open data as a forum for participation.
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Creator
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Myros, Kayla
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Subject
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Urban planning
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Contributor
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Voulgaris, Carole
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Date
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2023-05-18T04:07:21Z
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2023
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2023-05-17
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2023-05
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2023-05-18T04:07:21Z
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Type
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Thesis or Dissertation
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text
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Format
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application/pdf
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application/pdf
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Identifier
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Myros, Kayla. 2023. Open City: Applying Participatory Planning Theory to Open Data Initiatives. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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30521564
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https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37375212
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Language
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en