2020
Leorke, Dale
Games, Play and Playfulness in the Creative City: A Brief Overview Book Section
In: Leorke, Dale; Owens, Marcus (Ed.): Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City, pp. 27-37, Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-367-44123-4.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Creative cities, Creative industries, Game studies, Urban policy, Urban studies
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Leorke, Dale; Owens, Marcus
Introduction: Connecting Games, Play and Urban Discourse Book Section
In: Leorke, Dale; Owens, Marcus (Ed.): Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City, pp. 1-26, Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-367-44123-4.
Links | Tags: Creative cities, Game studies, Resilience, Smart city, Sustainability, Urban policy, Urban studies
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Leorke, Dale; Owens, Marcus
Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City Book
Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-367-44123-4.
Abstract | Tags: Creative cities, Game studies, Play, Smart city, Sustainability, Tourism, Urban policy, Urban studies
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2018
Leorke, Dale; Wyatt, Danielle
Public Libraries in the Smart City Book
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, ISBN: 978-9811328046.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Creative cities, Digitization, Disconnection, Library assessment, Library governance, Library users, Metrics, Neoliberalism, Public culture, Public libraries, Regional and rural libraries, Smart city, Social policy, Third space, Urban policy
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Draws upon detailed ethnographic research with library staff and policymakers across contrasting urban and regional cities in Victoria, and across different municipalities in Melbourne and Singapore.
Provides the first critical accounts of the relationship between libraries and urban planning policy.
Re-orientates smart city scholarship from the bottom-up, illustrating how smart city agendas play out in an everyday space at the interface between government and community.
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Contextualizes the library within the physical space of the city, and within the broader policy strategies and governmental narratives shaping contemporary urban development.
Draws upon detailed ethnographic research with library staff and policymakers across contrasting urban and regional cities in Victoria, and across different municipalities in Melbourne and Singapore.
Provides the first critical accounts of the relationship between libraries and urban planning policy.
Re-orientates smart city scholarship from the bottom-up, illustrating how smart city agendas play out in an everyday space at the interface between government and community.
Offers a very immediate view of the current state of libraries by drawing upon interviews with a range of library professionals and policymakers conducted between 2015-2017.
Draws upon detailed ethnographic research with library staff and policymakers across contrasting urban and regional cities in Victoria, and across different municipalities in Melbourne and Singapore.
Provides the first critical accounts of the relationship between libraries and urban planning policy.
Re-orientates smart city scholarship from the bottom-up, illustrating how smart city agendas play out in an everyday space at the interface between government and community.
Offers a very immediate view of the current state of libraries by drawing upon interviews with a range of library professionals and policymakers conducted between 2015-2017.