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Understanding the socio-spatial aspects of creativity in public spaces of Dutch university campuses:the interplay between research-generated evidence and urban planning and design practice
Full text linkHow does the physical environment affect creativity? This thesis explores theoretically and empirically the socio-spatial aspects of creativity phenomenon, using the public spaces of Dutch inner-city campuses and sciences parks as study cases. Such aspects are important for campuses’ planning and design since creativity cannot occur without people’ interactions with their social and material environments. This research firstly explores subjective and objective aspects of the relationship between the physical environment and creativity through measurable attributes, and then discussed data-based research-generated evidence with practitioners involved in public spaces’ projects of the cities Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen. The results highlighted discrepancies between the research-practice interface. Also, that the practice of planning and design of campuses’ public spaces stands ‘in between’ multiple actors and stakeholders, which have different values, goals, and visions. Urban planning and design practitioners often envision differently the importance of the physical configuration of public spaces as tools to generate creativity and creativity encounters. Such divergent views and interests in campus area development often cause institutional fragmentation, which results in the physical fragmentation of campuses' public spaces. Although this dissertation focuses on public spaces of campuses, public spaces should be understood as part of a larger urban structure and serve not only the surrounding property but also a general societal interest
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Weather to worry? Impact of weather conditions on e-bike use by high school students in the Netherlands
No full textAppropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Participatory research on improving active transportation:Using an online map-based questionnaire
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Exploring Spatial Transformation with Social Media
No full textThe focus of this paper is on the potential role of GIS and social media in understanding transformations of space and place. Such transformations have consequences for people's perceptions and preferences of spaces. The complexity and dynamics of the interaction between people and urban space requires other than static representations of the image of a city. The image of a city is continuously changing, affected by various kinds of transformations. Three kinds of transformations of urban space are proposed: flows, waves, and pulses. Flows are ongoing processes, irreversible sequences of events such as the globalization process. Waves are cycles such as day and night or the changing seasons. Pulses don't show regularity, these are unique and exceptional events. Examples are mega events or natural disasters. Data on urban areas are derived from social media, including photos with tags and gps-location, and these are analyzed with GIS software to understand the consequences of these transformations for image building, preferences, and uses of space. GIS, including data from social media, enables mapping the changing image of a place at multiple levels of scale, from the individual to the global. The image of a city is mapped for various users groups as well. A challenge is to interpret the meaning of the aggregated data at various levels of scale. Moreover, the distinction between 'noise' and real changes in people's perceptions and preferences needs further research
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