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Social Science Research Network, 2022

Complexity, governance & networks, May 2, 2022

We observe that time is central to most social dynamics and yet remains poorly understood. The co... more We observe that time is central to most social dynamics and yet remains poorly understood. The complexity sciences have contributed a wide range of concepts and tools to investigate and recast time in social systems. However, the dominant focus on quantitative models and quantification of data in the complexity sciences also prohibits a deeper understanding of time. As such, there is a need to fuse alternative notions of time with how it is commonly understood and measured in the complexity sciences. To this end, we juxtapose diverse notions of time from the social sciences and comment upon how this contrasts with notions in the complexity sciences. We will demonstrate how (qualitative) temporal casing can more appropriately capture social and causal complexity through within-case time variation. We use examples from research into megaprojects to demonstrate how temporal casing plays out in empirical analysis.

Environment And Planning B: Urban Analytics And City Science, May 16, 2022

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Dataset description-br /- This dataset is a recalculation of the Copernicus 2015 high resolution ... more Dataset description-br /- This dataset is a recalculation of the Copernicus 2015 high resolution layer (HRL) of imperviousness density data (IMD) at different spatial/territorial scales for the case studies of Barcelona and Milan. The selected spatial/territorial scales are the following: * a)Barcelona city boundaries * b)Barcelona metropolitan area, Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) * c)Barcelona greater city (Urban Atlas) * d)Barcelona functional urban area (Urban Atlas) * e)Milan city boundaries * f)Milan metropolitan area, Piano Intercomunale Milanese (PIM) * g)Milan greater city (Urban Atlas) * h)Milan functional urban area (Urban Atlas)In each of the spatial/territorial scales listed above, the number of 20x20mt cells corresponding to each of the 101 values of imperviousness (0-100% soil sealing: 0% means fully non-sealed area; 100% means fully sealed area) is provided, as well as the converted measure into squared kilometres (km2). -br /- -br /- Dataset composition-br /- ...

Quality & Quantity, Mar 26, 2022

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) includes two main components: QCA "as a research approach"... more Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) includes two main components: QCA "as a research approach" and QCA "as a method". In this study, we focus on the former and, by means of the "interpretive spiral", we critically look at the research process of QCA. We show how QCA as a research approach is composed of (1) an "analytical move", where cases, conditions and outcome(s) are conceptualised in terms of sets, and (2) a "membership move", where set membership values are qualitatively assigned by the researcher (i.e. calibration). Moreover, we show that QCA scholars have not sufficiently acknowledged the data generation process as a constituent research phase (or "move") for the performance of QCA. This is particularly relevant when qualitative data-e.g. interviews, focus groups, documents-are used for subsequent analysis and calibration (i.e. analytical and membership moves). We call the qualitative data collection process "relational move" because, for data gathering, researchers establish the social relation "interview" with the study participants. By using examples from our own research, we show how a dialogical interviewing style can help researchers gain the in-depth knowledge necessary to meaningfully represent qualitative data into set membership values for QCA, hence improving our ability to account for the "qualitative" in QCA.

The report illustrates why a smart city should develop a data policy. Guiding questions for the c... more The report illustrates why a smart city should develop a data policy. Guiding questions for the creation of such a data policy in the context of the Smart City Bamberg are discussed. Furthermore, the report shows how the smart cities of Barcelona, Hamburg, Helsinki, Stuttgart, Vienna and Zurich proceed. The presented analysis is based on public documents and interviews.

Supplemental material, Pagliarin_Gerrits_2020_Hino_TJQCA for Trajectory-based Qualitative Compara... more Supplemental material, Pagliarin_Gerrits_2020_Hino_TJQCA for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics by Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits in Methodological Innovations

Rscript_Hino_reelaboration_TJ-QCA for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounti... more Rscript_Hino_reelaboration_TJ-QCA for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics by Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits in Methodological Innovations

Rscript_Hino_replication for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for ca... more Rscript_Hino_replication for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics by Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits in Methodological Innovations

Supplemental material, Pagliarin_Gerrits_2020_MethInn_Supplementary_online_material for Trajector... more Supplemental material, Pagliarin_Gerrits_2020_MethInn_Supplementary_online_material for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics by Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits in Methodological Innovations

Rscript_Hino_reelaboration_relativevariation for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysi... more Rscript_Hino_reelaboration_relativevariation for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics by Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits in Methodological Innovations

Supplemental material, Pagliarin_Gerrits_2020_Hino_relvar_dataset for Trajectory-based Qualitativ... more Supplemental material, Pagliarin_Gerrits_2020_Hino_relvar_dataset for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics by Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits in Methodological Innovations

Supplemental material, Pagliarin_Gerrits_2020_Hino_RelVar for Trajectory-based Qualitative Compar... more Supplemental material, Pagliarin_Gerrits_2020_Hino_RelVar for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics by Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits in Methodological Innovations

Supplemental material, Pagliarin_Gerrits_2020_Hino_dataset for Trajectory-based Qualitative Compa... more Supplemental material, Pagliarin_Gerrits_2020_Hino_dataset for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics by Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits in Methodological Innovations

Hino_RelVar for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time... more Hino_RelVar for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics by Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits in Methodological Innovations

Hino_dataset for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based tim... more Hino_dataset for Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics by Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits in Methodological Innovations

Social Science Research Network, 2022

Complexity, governance & networks, May 2, 2022

Environment And Planning B: Urban Analytics And City Science, May 16, 2022

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Quality & Quantity, Mar 26, 2022

At Home in the Housing Market: RC43 Conference Book of Proceedings, 2013

In metropolitan areas, housing demands of core cities are satisfied through the expansion towards... more In metropolitan areas, housing demands of core cities are satisfied through the expansion towards the suburbs. In Southern European countries, which are characterized by the highest rate of home occupancy in Europe, urban sprawl can be considered as a type of spatial organization that facilitates home-ownership. In this context, local governments' decisions emerge as a discriminant factor for sprawled housing provision, as local authorities purposely manage and allocate municipal land in order to provide affordable, suburban housing. Hence, housing preferences have a marginal effect in producing sprawled residential areas, as people tend to conform - or at best choose among - the housing stock that municipalities offer. This claim is supported by the use of European and local data on urban development patterns in two Southern European cities, Barcelona and Milan, during a 30 years timespan. Furthermore, interviews have been carried out to a variety of actors in order to explain the processes of sprawled housing provision in both areas.

At Home in the Housing Market: RC43 Conference Book of Proceedings, 2013

The analysis of territorial phenomena usually bypasses the role of local political entities as cr... more The analysis of territorial phenomena usually bypasses the role of local political entities as crucial decision-makers and market regulators, focusing instead on the role of developers and housing preferences of home-buyers. In contrast, this article suggests that local administrative units are crucial agents in defining and shaping the processes of urban development at a larger scale. In this article It is argued that, when a given local government is allowed to subsist mainly on local taxation, a fiscal crisis of local government units is a determinant factor of urban growth, as each administration tries to fuel up urban expansion, in the hopes of boosting the local tax base. By employing a multi-method approach, we have ascertained that other characteristics traditionally associated with urban sprawling were not present in the area of Milan, so it has been identified as a least likely case to experience urban dispersion. In this context, we concentrate mainly on the Groane Regional Park. The aim of article is to re--‐focus on the local administrations as powerful agents that shape metropolitan scale urban development.

With a focus on sprawling residential areas, this paper tries to reveal the ordinary political an... more With a focus on sprawling residential areas, this paper tries to reveal the ordinary political and planning dynamics through which land as a resource is transformed from open and agricultural soil into urban land to be later allocated and used. The aim is to unravel the political choices and the routine urban planning practices triggering land consumption for residential use, emphasizing both the similarities and differences between Barcelona and Milan as two Southern European case-studies. In doing so, multi-level governance is the frame within which public and private actors are identified, and their roles and modes of interactions in shaping the boundaries of borderless cities are defined. This paper tries to address the mechanism through which suburban boundaries are shaped by the land use policy decisions taken by actors in a multi-level governance context at the urban, provincial, metropolitan and regional levels.