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How Can Games Transform Cities? Geogames as Tools for Research, Education, and Urban Praxis
Geogames have matured from an emergent field in the 2000s into a transformative intersection of game design, geographic information science, and games with a purpose. This thematic issue advances the geogames research, education, and praxis agenda through 10 articles organized into two sections…
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A Gaia‐Inspired Framework for Geogames: Bridging Theory and Practice to Design and Assess Games
The field of geogames, positioned at the intersection of serious games and geographic information systems (GIS), remains theoretically fragmented and underexplored. This article addresses that gap by introducing a novel framework that integrates game studies with the Gaia hypothesis, as proposed by…
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Campus Changer: A Serious Geogame for Transforming the Main Campus of the Warsaw University of Technology
The goal of the article was to develop a serious geogame that allows for the activation of the Warsaw University of Technology’s (WUT) academic community’s involvement in the participatory planning process for campus revitalization and development. The Campus Changer geogame is implemented as a…
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Modern Board Games: Can They Be Geogames?
This article addresses the evolving concept of geogames, traditionally focused on digital and location‐based experiences, and explores the potential of modern board games as an analogue form of geogame. While geogames have been defined by their use of real‐world spatial information, often through…
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Playful Reconfigurations: Learning, Making, and Playing Geogames for Urban Participation
Participatory engagements with digital tools and urban data have become a defining trend in smart city and digital twin projects. However, many platforms, interactive apps, and immersive media fall short compared to analog participation formats regarding open‐ended collaborations and the inclusion…
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PaSyMo: Gamifying Communicative Urban Planning With Participatory Systems Modeling
Urban planning increasingly requires navigating complex socio‐spatial dynamics and uncertainties, particularly when addressing social challenges where stakeholders hold diverse perspectives and knowledge. This article introduces PaSyMo (Participatory Systems Modeling), a gamified communication…
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From City‐Builder to Geogame: A Geodesign Process for Participatory Urban Planning
City‐building games (CBGs) have a long history of focusing on societal simulation and urban management gameplay, including The Sumerian Game (1964), Micropolis, later named SimCity (1989), and Utopia: Creation of a Nation (1991). In this article, we present the outcomes of a pilot study through…
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Experimenting With Gamification and Geogames in Urban Planning: A Systematic Literature Review
This systematic literature review examines the complex intersection of gamification and urban planning with particular attention to the interrelated fields of experimental urbanism, systems theory, digitalization of the urban planning system, game theory, and agent‐based modelling. As such, this…
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Geogames’ Environments as Hosts for the Collective Expression of Emotions in Urban Space
Urban space is perceived by users on many different dimensions. One important aspect of spatial perception is the emotions that users associate with it. Mapping the emotions associated with specific spaces can make an important contribution to urban design processes. The conclusions drawn from…
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Nested Urban Scales: A Pervasive Geogame Model for Collective Energy Efficiency and Action
As global energy demand continues to rise, energy efficiency remains one of the most cost‐effective strategies for managing consumption, and behavioral energy efficiency (BEE) plays a crucial role in reducing energy use in buildings. Energy games designed to address BEE through real‐life actions…
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Geogame‐Based Simulation for Active Mobility Planning in Socially Sustainable Cities
The tendency to simplify urban complexity in planning, without considering diverse social and geographical contexts, can exacerbate the urban mobility crisis. Within this paradigm, geogames offer geospatial, collaborative, playful, and inclusive means of evaluating sustainable urban design…
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Caregiving and Paid Employment in Suburbia: The Cases of Hamburg‐Oberbillwerder and Munich‐Freiham
Urban planning has long been criticised for privileging the spatial needs and demands of paid employment, thus discriminating against caregivers. This critique applied especially to monofunctional suburban districts that lacked childcare and employment opportunities, complicating the everyday…
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Reclaiming the City Through Care: Public Urban Cultures of Care
Practices of care are key elements of urbanity and thus of sociospatial relations, including everyday experiences in and of urban places and spaces. However, practices of care become even more important in times of multiple societal crises in which the quality of life of individuals and communities…
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Cooking, Caring, and Commoning: Grassroots Community Kitchens Across Five European Cities
In this article, we analyse collective cooking initiatives in Florence, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Berlin, and Bern, illuminating how they foster care and commons amidst multiple urban crises. From our ethnographic explorations, these community kitchens emerge as forms of resistance against current…
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Care Infrastructures in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods at Times of Welfare State Change: Finland and UK Compared
In this article, we approach urban cultures of care from the perspective that analyses care and caring as taking place between bottom‐up, everyday practices and welfare state structures. We begin with a broad understanding of care as a fundamental activity that sustains and nurtures our shared…
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Spaces of Urban Cultures of Homeless Care: The Austerity‐Driven Closure of an Institutional Facility
This article draws on institutional ethnography to examine the austerity‐driven closure of a homeless care facility in Cologne, Germany. It expands debates on public urban cultures of care by highlighting the significance of spatially embedded institutional loops and their impact on malfunctioning…
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Care as a Method and Methods for Care: Researching Multispecies Relationships in Urban Gardens in Finland
Care as an ethical guide and practice is paramount in multispecies relationships in urban gardens. This article contributes to the discussion on the diversity of care in urban gardens. We assert that the choice and combination of methodological approaches play a crucial role in noticing and…
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Caring Communities and Urban Cultures of Care for Older People in Austria, Hungary, and The Netherlands
While a wide range of community‐based civic initiatives and collective practices have emerged in urban settings in recent years, the intersection of spatiality, care, and communities is a relatively little‐discussed topic. In the examination of urban life, the concept of social infrastructures may…
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Caring Cities: Towards a Public Urban Culture of Care?
Based on an international literature review and selected case studies, this article discusses the potential of the Caring City policies for an urban public culture of care. In recent years, “the caring city” has entered feminist and urbanist debates and local politics as a concept to overcome the…
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Creating Communities of Urban Care: The No to the Felling Environmental Movement in the City of Madrid
The emergence of urban care communities has recently become a topic of study, with a focus on the social bonds shaped through mutual assistance and support in vulnerable and non‐vulnerable neighbourhoods following natural disasters, pandemic situations, and collective urban emotional suffering. We…