Salt mines, a significant category of local, regional, national, and/or European underground
heritage, are becoming attractive tourism destinations. This paper examines three cases of …

The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities explores the question of what it means for a city
to be 'smart', raises some of the tensions emerging in smart city developments and considers …

In the current modern world, gamification and its innovative methods become one of the
primary tools for advanced communication and socialization with users in a variety of sectors …

Recent research indicates that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can
support social participation in the planning, design and maintenance of public spaces …

Top-down approaches often fail to involve, collaborate with, and consider social actors in the
process of planning, design, and maintenance of public spaces (PDMPS). This research …

The article describes a personal point of view on the relationships between technology
innovations in smart cities and how they are used for the benefits of the residents. Are they …

Current evidence states that urban green spaces (UGS) increase the quality of urban
settings, enhance local resilience and promote sustainable lifestyles, being recognized as …

Participatory budgeting has arisen as an interesting form of citizen participation in urban
development and, thus, as a new way of exercising placemaking and grassroots democracy …

The term Citizen Science has been used in various contexts, but little effort has been made
to provide a vision of it in regard to socio-spatial studies, which are at the core of the …

The spaces created by urban infrastructure are being reimagined as multifunctional urban
places. This paper explores the creation of a green, blue and smart infrastructural space, the …