Games and serious games in urban planning: Study cases

Alenka Krek Poplin

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21887-3_1

Games and serious games in urban planning: Study cases

Alenka Krek Poplin^*

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In this article we focus on online games and serious games in urban planning. At the beginning we provide some definitions of games and serious games and discuss the potential of serious games. We overview the urban planning games available online and give some examples of the game stories and concepts. The main goal of the article is to explore the potential of serious games in public participatory planning. To this end, a group of students at HafenCity University Hamburg designed and implemented a serious game. The game was entitled B3 Game and applied on the case of a market place in Billstedt, one of the city districts in Hamburg. The game enables the players to design their marketplace and discuss their suggestions with other citizens and urban planners. It aims at supporting playful public participation in urban planning. We conclude the paper with a discussion and further research directions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2011 - International Conference, Proceedings
Editors	Beniamino Murgante, Osvaldo Gervasi, Andrés Iglesias, David Taniar, Bernady O. Apduhan
Pages	1-14
Number of pages	14
Edition	1.
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-642-21887-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21887-3_1
Publication status	Published - 19 Jul 2011
Event	International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2011) - Santander, Spain Duration: 20 Jun 2011 → 23 Jun 2011

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Number	6783
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2011)
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Santander
Period	20/06/11 → 23/06/11

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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online games
urban planning
public participation
serious online games
study cases

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Krek Poplin, A 2011, Games and serious games in urban planning: Study cases. in B Murgante, O Gervasi, A Iglesias, D Taniar & BO Apduhan (eds), Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2011 - International Conference, Proceedings. 1. edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. 6783, pp. 1-14, International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2011), Santander, Spain, 20/06/11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21887-3_1

Games and serious games in urban planning: Study cases. / Krek Poplin, Alenka.
Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2011 - International Conference, Proceedings. ed. / Beniamino Murgante; Osvaldo Gervasi; Andrés Iglesias; David Taniar; Bernady O. Apduhan. 1. ed. 2011. p. 1-14 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; No. 6783).

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