Mark Deakin
Mark Deakin

Prof Mark Deakin

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  M.Deakin@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Mark is a leading academic who has provided a strong support to emerging scientific and technical developments on Smart Cities. He is author of 12 books and about 100 peer-reviewed publications on Sustainable Urban Development, Urban Technology Management and Smart Cities. These publications include Sustainable Urban Development (Volumes 1-3, Routledge 2005-2009) and Smart Cities: Governing, Modelling and Analysing the Transition (Routledge, 2013). In addition, Mark has directed several research projects dealing with Smart Cities and the Sustainable Development of Urban Environments for the European Commission, Economic and Social Research Council and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the UK. He recently completed research projects include: (1) CLUE: Climate Neutral Urban Districts in Europe (European Commission - INTERREG Programme); (2) Smart and Sustainable Cities (European Investment Bank - JESSICA Programme); (3) SmartCities (European Commission - INTERREG Programme); (4) EXPGOV (European Commission - IPTS Programme on Emerging City Governance Models); (5) SURegen: Sustainable Urban Regeneration (EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environment Programme); (6) Online S3: ONLINE Platform for Smart Specialisation Policy Advice (European Commission - Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme). Mark is also in the Editorial Board of 6 academic journals. This includes the Journal of Urban Technology (Taylor & Francis), the Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society (Elsevier) and the International Journal of Intelligent Buildings (Taylor & Francis).

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Co-design in Smart Cities

Report
Cruickshank, P., & Deakin, M. (2011)
Co-design in Smart Cities
This report brings together the different experiences and perspectives of Smart Cities partners who have used different forms of co-design. These are then linked to the findin...

Sustainable Urban Development

Thesis
Deakin, M. Sustainable Urban Development. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4660
This submission for PhD by publication aims to capture, reflect upon, analyse and offer critical insights into how the use of land and exchange of property can help serve the ...

The embedded intelligence of smart cities

Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2011)
The embedded intelligence of smart cities. Intelligent Buildings International, 3(3), 189-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2011.579340
This article offers an extensive review of Mitchell's thesis on the transition from the city of bits to e-topia and finds it wanting. It suggests that the problems encountered...

Exploring Emerging ICT-enabled Governance Models in European Cities.

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Misuraca, G., Reid, A. & Deakin, M. (2011)
Exploring Emerging ICT-enabled Governance Models in European Cities.
This report presents the findings of a mapping survey conducted by IPTS in collaboration with EUROCITIES as part of an exploratory research project on emerging ICT-enabled gov...

The triple-helix model of smart cities: a neo evolutionary perspective.

Journal Article
Leydesdorff, L., & Deakin, M. (2011)
The triple-helix model of smart cities: a neo evolutionary perspective. Journal of Urban Technology, 18, 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2011.601111
This paper sets out to demonstrate how the triple-helix model enables us to study the knowledge base of an urban economy in terms of its civil society's support for the evolut...

A community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneration

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Deakin, M. (2009)
A community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneration. Journal of Urban Technology, 16, 91-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630730903090354
This paper outlines the research that has been carried out to understand Large Urban Distressed Areas (LUDAs) and the community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneratio...

Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Communities: The Role of Networks, Innovation, and Creativity in Building Successful Partnerships

Journal Article
Deakin, M., & Allwinkle, S. (2007)
Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Communities: The Role of Networks, Innovation, and Creativity in Building Successful Partnerships. Journal of Urban Technology, 14(1), 77-91. doi:10.1080/10630730701260118
The following examination goes against the current trend in policy on urban regeneration partnerships by relaxing the assumption that they represent virtuous circles of mutual...

The IntelCities elearning platform, knowledge management system and digital library for semantically-rich e-governance services.

Journal Article
Deakin, M., Allwinkle, S., Campbell, F. H. & Jesurethnam, J. P. (2007)
The IntelCities elearning platform, knowledge management system and digital library for semantically-rich e-governance services. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 2, 31-38. ISSN 1832-3669
The paper examines the architecture and services of the e-learning platform and describes how the knowledge management system designed for IntelCities is supported by the IP’s...

The IntelCities community of practice.

Journal Article
Deakin, M. & Allwinkle, S. (2006)
The IntelCities community of practice. International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations: Annual Review. 6, 155-162. ISSN 1447-9524
Sets out the integrated community model of electronically enhanced governance services developed by IntelCities to represent its e-Learning platform, knowledge management syst...

Citizens' expectations of information cities: implications for urban planning and design

Journal Article
Curwell, S., Deakin, M., Cooper, I., Paskaleva-Shapira, K., Ravetz, J., & Babicki, D. (2005)
Citizens' expectations of information cities: implications for urban planning and design. Building Research and Information, 33(1), 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/0961321042000329422
The European Union has made the development of a vibrant knowledge-based economy a key policy objective, and increasingly national and local governments worldwide are seeking ...

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