The neglect of quality-of-life aspects, with an over-emphasis on income, makes it hard to tackle poverty, writes Deniz Sevinc for the LSE Business Review.
The Urban Living Birmingham consortium is identifying improvements to urban services by combining top-down urban governance with bottom-up lay and expert knowledge to provide an environment that emphasises and encourages innovations that generate a step change in urban service provision. It is doing this by bringing together, developing and applying end-user and open innovation processes (from business disciplines) and participatory and cooperative design principles (from urban design disciplines) to selected urban services and systems to co-create a resilient Birmingham that provides ‘better outcomes for people’ (BOP).
For more information visit the Urban Living Birmingham website at http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/business/research/research-projects/urban-living-birmingham-project.aspx
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