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Driving urban transitions - Digital-twin solutions (2023)
Book Chapter
Ludlow, D. (in press). Driving urban transitions - Digital-twin solutions. In E. Lissandrello, J. Sorensen, K. Olesen, & R. Steffansen (Eds.), The ‘New Normal’ in Planning, Governance and Participation - Transforming Urban Governance in a Post-pandemic World. Springer

This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future. It's argues that the pandemic and post-pandemic periods, in the su... Read More about Driving urban transitions - Digital-twin solutions.

Towards digital-twin solutions for the 15 minute city (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Ludlow, D., Khan, Z., Chrysoulakis, N., & Mitraka, Z. (2023). Towards digital-twin solutions for the 15 minute city. In 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE). https://doi.org/10.1109/jurse57346.2023.10144161

The Covid-19 pandemic and the climate emergency have re-emphasised the need to re-evaluate urban governance and planning process in cities. The "new-normal"and digital transformations offer catalysts to drive and deliver climate mitigation in cities.... Read More about Towards digital-twin solutions for the 15 minute city.

Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Chrysoulakis, N., Ludlow, D., Mitraka, Z., Somarakis, G., Khan, Z., Lauwaet, D., …Holt Andersen, B. (2023, April). Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project. Presented at European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria

A major challenge for the urban community is the exploitation of Earth Observation intelligence in managing in the multidimensional nature of urban sustainability towards enhancing urban resilience, particularly in relation to the challenges of clima... Read More about Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project.

Co-creation pathways to inform shared governance of urban living labs in practice: Lessons from three European projects (2021)
Journal Article
Mahmoud, I. H., Morello, E., Ludlow, D., & Salvia, G. (2021). Co-creation pathways to inform shared governance of urban living labs in practice: Lessons from three European projects. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 3, Article 690458. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.690458

Over recent decades Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have become a common space for co-creation processes' experimentation, whereby new approaches for sustainable urban development are highly connected to support evidence-based policy generation. Europe seem... Read More about Co-creation pathways to inform shared governance of urban living labs in practice: Lessons from three European projects.

Exploring alternative pathways toward more sustainable regional food systems by foodshed assessment – City region examples from Vienna and Bristol (2021)
Journal Article
Vicente-Vicente, J. L., Doernberg, A., Zasada, I., Ludlow, D., Staszek, D., Bushell, J., …Piorr, A. (2021). Exploring alternative pathways toward more sustainable regional food systems by foodshed assessment – City region examples from Vienna and Bristol. Environmental Science and Policy, 124, 401-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.07.013

The resilience of the food supply system has become a vital issue for many countries especially under substantial international supply disturbances (e.g. the effects of COVID-19 restrictions). Regionalizing diets and increasing food self-sufficiency... Read More about Exploring alternative pathways toward more sustainable regional food systems by foodshed assessment – City region examples from Vienna and Bristol.

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions (2021)
Book
Bisello, A., Vettorato, D., Ludlow, D., & Baranzelli, C. (Eds.). (2021). Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions. Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57764-3

This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of s... Read More about Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions.

Towards smart cities development: A study of public transport system and traffic-related air pollutants in Malaysia (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Brohi, S., Pillai, T. R., Asirvatham, D., Ludlow, D., & Bushell, J. (2018). Towards smart cities development: A study of public transport system and traffic-related air pollutants in Malaysia. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Volume 167, 8th International Conference on Environment Science and Engineering (ICESE 2018) 11–13 March 2018, Barcelona, Spain. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/167/1/012015

Increasing number of privately owned vehicles are depicting Malaysians preferred mode of mobility and lack of interest in the public transport system. In most developing countries such as Malaysia, motorized vehicles are the major contributors to air... Read More about Towards smart cities development: A study of public transport system and traffic-related air pollutants in Malaysia.

Smart Mobility Cities: Connecting Bristol and Kuala Lumpur project report (2018)
Report
Asirvatham, D., Brohi, S. N., Xion, T. E., Theng, T. G., Fei, N. J., Kaur, S., …Bushell, J. (2018). Smart Mobility Cities: Connecting Bristol and Kuala Lumpur project report

Financed by the British Council Institutional Links program this Smart Mobility Cities project has opened a fascinating window on a journey of discovery linking Bristol and Kuala Lumpur. This journey was in part directed towards the realisation of Sm... Read More about Smart Mobility Cities: Connecting Bristol and Kuala Lumpur project report.

Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study (2017)
Journal Article
Soomro, K., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2017). Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 419-444. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009859

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents some results from an EU FP7 RTD project urbanAPI, in which three ICT applications target different aspects of participatory urban governance. The 3D Scenario Creator allows urban plan... Read More about Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study.

From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products (2017)
Journal Article
Ludlow, D., Khan, Z., Soomro, K., Marconcini, M., José, R. S., Malcorps, P., …Metz, A. (2017). From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 465-493. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009861

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Intelligence delivered by earth observation (EO) satellites performs a vital role in supporting ICT enabled urban governance, and the creation of decision making tools delivering integrated urban plannin... Read More about From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products.

Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hasham, K., Soomro, K., & Ludlow, D. (2017, December). Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities. Paper presented at The 4th International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications., Texas, USA

Effective communication with citizens is an important goal of smart cities. To this end the digital age offers many mechanisms to not only enable timely communication, but also bilateral communication. Mechanisms such as blog posts and online press r... Read More about Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities.

Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project (2013)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., & Caceres, S. (2013). Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project. Evaluation and Program Planning, 40, 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2013.04.004

In common with all projects, evaluating an Information Technology (IT) based research and development project is necessary in order to discover whether or not the outcomes of the project are successful. However, evaluating large-scale collaborative p... Read More about Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project.

UrbanNexus at the crossroads (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., Graham, J., & Blanes, N. (2013, July). UrbanNexus at the crossroads. Paper presented at Planning for resilient cities and regions, Joint AESOP/ASCP Congress, University College, Dublin, 15-19 July 2013, University College, Dublin

Domain-specific languages for agile urban policy modelling (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Kramer, M., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2013, May). Domain-specific languages for agile urban policy modelling. Paper presented at ECMS, 27th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Alesund Norway, 27-30 May 2013, Alesund, Norway

Smart cities and urban governance: The urbanAPI project: Bologna case study (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., Mauri, M., & Caranti, C. (2013, May). Smart cities and urban governance: The urbanAPI project: Bologna case study. Paper presented at REAL CORP 2013 - 18th Internation conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society, Rome, 20-23 May, 2013, Rome, Italy

UrbanAPI development progress (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2013, March). UrbanAPI development progress. Presented at Transforming Government Workshop, (tGov2013), Brunel University, London, 22-23 March 2013, Brunel University, London

Applying the criteria indicators and metrics evaluation method on ICT research: The HUMBOLDT project (2013)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., & Rix, J. (2013). Applying the criteria indicators and metrics evaluation method on ICT research: The HUMBOLDT project. Research Evaluation, 22(1), 30-40. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvs037

Evaluating an Information Technology (IT) based research and development project from an end-user's perspective is necessary in order to discover whether or not the outcomes of the project are successful. However, it is not straightforward to design... Read More about Applying the criteria indicators and metrics evaluation method on ICT research: The HUMBOLDT project.

Bratislava regions in motion: Breaking the path (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Rauhut, D. (2012, August). Bratislava regions in motion: Breaking the path. Paper presented at 52nd European Congress of the RSAI and 4th Central European Regional Science Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia, 21-25 August, 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia

Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2012, July). Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities. Paper presented at 26th Annual AESOP Congress, Ankara, Turkey

Citizens’ participation in urban planning and policy-making develops the traditional top-down governance model via promotion of bottom-up approaches to policy development and decision-making. This evolution drives social innovation in support of pl... Read More about Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities.