A-systemic technologies

, 191–192

ACEC

, 13–14

Active mobility

, 142–143

Agency theory

, 65–66

Air pollution

, 161–162

Alternative reality (AR)

, 211

Apple

, 206

Architecture

, 2

Artefact driven design interpretation practice

, 126–127

Artificial intelligence

, 197, 209

Banking

, 13

Bottom-up technology

, 164

Built heritage

, 94–95

Business operations

, 187–189

Carbon emissions

, 180–181

CCTV cameras

, 193, 196

Celtic Tiger

, 14–15, 22, 32, 210–211

Central Statistics Office (CSO)

, 64

Cities

, 174

Citizen science-based climate action behavioural change, promoting and supporting

, 123–126

City as open innovation platform

, 164–165

City as platform

, 164–165

City library

, 78

City living

, 1

City policy

, 163

City smart

, 165–176

City-making

, 31–32

City-regions

, 69–70

Climate change

, 122

Clover Meats

, 13–14

Comeragh Mountains

, 94–95

Commons theory

, 85, 87

Community

, 78

Compact growth

, 140–141

Copper Coast

, 94–95

Cost-benefit analysis

, 65–66

Covenant of Mayors initiative (CoM initiative)

, 180–181

COVID-19 pandemic

, 140–141, 208

Creadan Head Archaeological Project (CHAP)

, 124–125

Creadan–Waterford Estuary Steering Group

, 128

Creative cities

, 208–209

Cultural consensus

, 108

Cultural ecology

, 78

Cultural heritage

, 126–127

and memory

, 94–95

Cultural practices

, 78–80

in Waterford

, 78

Cultural thinking

, 189–191

Deep water

, 197–199

intervention

, 195–197

rivers of affect

, 189–191

smartification of everything

, 191–194

virtual rivers

, 201–203

Derelict Ireland

, 1

Design research

, 121

Deus ex machina

, 35

Digital cities

, 165, 172, 208–209

Digital Revolution

, 207

Digital Story Trail Web AR App

, 179–180

Diversity

, 78

Early Irish Settlement

, 116–119

Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly (EMRA)

, 27

Ecological language

, 79

Ecologies

, 78–80

Econometric forecasting

, 65–66

Economic prosperity

, 33–34

Economic rationality

, 59–60

Economic realities

, 61

Economic sociology

, 61

Economics

, 60–61, 64, 66

Economics in situ

, 70–71

Education, import of

, 103–105

Empathy

, 109–110

Entrepreneurial cities

, 208–209

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

, 123

Epistemic diversity

, 85–86

Eurocentric knowledge

, 78

European Central Bank

, 33–34

European Economic Community

, 14

European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP)

, 23

European Union

, 33–34

EuroStat

, 64

Export-oriented foreign investment

, 11–12

Figurative language

, 48

Financial austerity

, 2

First Industrial Revolutions

, 205–206

15-minute city

, 140–141

characteristics

, 143–145

genesis

, 141–143

Irish planning context

, 145–147

North Docks

, 149–151

opportunities

, 148–149

opportunities and challenges

, 151–156

re-imagining existing neighbourhoods

, 151

Waterford

, 147–148

5G

, 211

Fixity

, 40

Forward-looking discourses

, 2

Fourth Industrial Revolution

, 205, 207

Frames

, 32

Future city

, 1

Future-thinking

, 1

Game theory

, 65–66

GDP

birth as city-region economist

, 63–64

city-regions

, 69–70

contesting economy in data and calculations, and boundaries

, 62–63

dividing economic and political

, 66–67

economics

, 64–66

economics in situ

, 70–71

economy

, 67–68

performing economy

, 60–62

scale and demarcation battles as politics of economics

, 68

self-evident truth

, 59–60

Generation Rent

, 1

Geography

, 2

Giddens’s theory of social structure

, 197–198

Globalisation

, 33–34

Good Shepherd Sisters

, 95

Goodbody’s jute factory

, 13–14

Google

, 206

Governance

, 24

Government as Platform

, 164–165

Green cities

, 208–209

Guidant Corporation

, 15

Halperin’s theory of the ‘library commons’

, 78

Heritage

, 78–80

building

, 77–78, 80

of coercive confinement

, 94–96

Higher education reform in Ireland

, 50–51

Human health

, 161–162

Idealist-Kantian approach

, 62–63

Imageability

, 174–176

Inclusion

, 77–78

Income tax returns

, 65

Indigenous intelligences of city dwellers

, 2

Industrial Development Agency (IDA)

, 20

Industrial School in Waterford

, 94–96

Industry 4.0

, 207

Information and communication technologies (ICT)

, 208–209

Institute for Transportation & Development Policy

, 144

Institute of Technology Carlow

, 50–51

Integrated and collaborative urban development vision for Smart 4.0

, 176–181

Intelligent cities”

, 208–209

Interconnectedness

, 78

International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICoSoC)

, 101

International Monetary Fund

, 33–34

Internet of Things (IoT)

, 189, 191, 207, 209

INTERREG MATCH-UP programme

, 146–147

Investment

, 15

Irish planning context

, 145–147

Irish politics

, 35–36

Irish regional healthcare economics

, 64–65

Justice for Magdalenes Oral History Project

, 102, 105

Kinetic City

, 189–191

Knowledge cities

, 208–209

Labour market

, 61

Labour techniques

, 206

Land Development Agency (LDA)

, 153–154

Language

, 84–88

Library

, 81–84

buildings

, 87–88

commons

, 78

Liveability

, 2

Location quotient (LQ)

, 18–19

Low Power Wide Area Networks

, 211

Magdalene Laundry

, 94–96

Mapping data

, 202–203

Maritime heritage through community projects

, 131–133

Market society

, 66–67

Marxist approach

, 78–79

Marxist-materialist approach

, 62–63

Mathematical modelling methods

, 65–66

Media

, 2

Mesolithic peoples

, 118–119

Mesolithics

, 119

Metropolitan Area Strategic Plans (MASPs)

, 32–33, 145–148

Mozilla Hubs

, 191–192

Multinational enterprises (MNEs)

, 207

National Board and Paper Mills

, 13–14

National Development Plan

, 32–33

National Health Service (N. H. S)

, 193

National Plan Analysis for Waterford

conceptual and methodological considerations

, 32–37

growth

, 37–43

questions of scale

, 43–52

National Planning Framework (NPF)

, 12, 26, 29, 32–33, 69, 140–141, 145–146

National Planning Objective (NPO)

, 149

National plans

, 35

National Spatial Strategy (NSS)

, 22–24

National Strategic Outcomes (NSO)

, 146–147

Natural intelligence

, 196

Natural intelligence

, 197

Natural resources

, 119–120

Neoliberal policy experiments

, 32

Neoliberalism

, 32

Neoliberalization

, 32

Net present value for capital budgeting

, 65–66

North Docks

, 149–151

North Quays Innovation District

, 149–150

North Quays SDZ regeneration project

, 40–41

Northern and Western Regional Assembly (NWRA)

, 27

Objectivity

, 1

Parsonian-pact

, 63

Participation Platforms

, 164–165

Performativity of economics

, 61

Place

, 80

Placemaking

, 80–81

Planning

, 32

Planning and Development Act 2000

, 80

Political autonomy

, 33–34

Political flamboyance

, 35

Politics

, 2

Population growth

, 39

Portalis Project

, 121–122, 128, 130–131

Portfolio selection

, 65–66

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

, 108

Power of performativity

, 61–62

Pragmatistic linguistics

, 61

Predictability

, 1

Project 2040

, 176–177

Project Ireland 2040

, 32–33, 37, 42

Property rights perspective

, 65–66

Public in transitional justice

, 105–110

Public infrastructure

, 161–162

Public Libraries Act (Ireland) from 1855

, 83–84

Public library

, 78

Public Participation Network (PPN)

, 179

Quality of life

, 142

Rail services

, 13

Rational bureacracy

, 66–67

Rational compassion

, 109–110

Rationality

, 1

Record of Protected Structures (RPS)

, 80

Regional development

, 21–22, 45

Regional Policy Objective (RPO)

, 146–147

Regional Spatial and Economic Strategies (RSESs)

, 27, 32–33, 145–147

Rivers of affect

, 189–191

Ruskin Park

, 193–194

Scarce resources

, 161–162

Science cities

, 208–209

Script

, 36–37

Second Industrial Revolutions

, 205–206

Shipping

, 13

Sites of Conscience movement

, 95, 101, 103

Skilled labour force

, 51–52

Skills agenda

, 51–52

Smart cites

, 197–198

Smart cities

, 162, 172, 189, 191

city smart

, 165–176

dimensions

, 173, 181

ecosystem

, 173

evolution of

, 162–165

evolution of smart city thinking

, 162–165

inform decision-making through

, 183

research

, 187, 189, 208

smart waterford city thinking

, 176–181

smartSE facility

, 181–183

Smart Cities 1.0

, 163

Smart Cities 2.0

, 163–164

Smart Cities 3.0

, 164

Smart cities 4.0

, 162, 164–165

ecosystem

, 173–174

integrated and collaborative urban development vision for

, 176–181

understanding

, 165–176

Smart City Facility

, 162

Smart economy

, 175

initiatives

, 177–179

Smart environment

, 175–176

initiatives

, 180–181

Smart governance

, 175

initiatives

, 179

Smart living

, 175

initiatives

, 179–180

Smart mobility

, 175

initiatives

, 180

Smart Open & Sustainable City

, 162

Smart people

, 175

Smart people initiatives

, 179

Smart Recycle Bin IoT-enabled sensors projects

, 180–181

Smart South East initiative (smartSE)

, 177

creating technical platforms

, 182

facility

, 181–183

Smart sustainable city

, 165–172

Smart technologies

, 199

Smart waterford city thinking

, 176–181

Smartness

, 197

Social VR platform

, 191–192

Sociality of urban life

, 1

Sociology

, 2

South East region

, 12, 14

changing urban hierarchy

, 17

demographic change in

, 15–18

distinctive urban structure

, 24–26

economic structure

, 18–21

South East Technological University

, 50–51

Southern Regional Assembly (SRA)

, 27

Stakeholder engagement

, 1

State-of-the-art technology

, 206

Static City

, 189–191

Strategic Development Zone (SDZ)

, 149–150

Strategy

, 2

Sunk cost

, 65–66

Technology

, 2, 162–164, 174

Third Industrial Revolution

, 207

Three-dimensional model

, 199–201

Throwntogetheness theorisation

, 88

Top-down technology

, 164

Traffic management

, 161–162

Traffic systems

, 196

Transaction cost analysis

, 65–66

Transitional justice approach

, 104–105

Transport-orientated development (TOD)

, 146–147

Tribal nationalism

, 59–60

Troika

, 33–34

Tuam Oral History Project

, 102, 105

Twitter

, 206

UN Habitat’s Cities for Sustainable Competitiveness index

, 144

United Nations Joinet-Orentlicher Principles (UNJOP)

, 108–109

University College Cork (UCC)

, 124

Urban centres

, 17

Urban futurising

, 1

Urban greening

, 1

Urban imaginaries

, 174, 176, 209

Urban planning

, 2

aims

, 2

contributors

, 4–7

methodologies and methods

, 3–4

Waterford City

, 3

Urban Regeneration Development Funding (URDF)

, 154–155

Urban transformation

, 32

Urban-based industry

, 14

Urbanisation

, 31–32

Viking Triangle

, 94–95

Virtual reality (VR)

, 126–127, 191–192

Vulnerability of cultural heritage

, 96–101

Waterford

, 60, 147–148, 187, 189

future

, 105–110

Waterford City

, 3, 11–12

demographic change in South East Region

, 15–18

economic structure of South East Region today

, 18–21

NPF

, 26–29

population change, South East Region

, 16

in regional context

, 12, 15, 21, 24

South East Region’s distinctive urban structure

, 24–26

Waterford City and Council Development Plan

, 150

Waterford City Central Library (WCCL)

, 77–78, 81, 85

Waterford Crystal

, 13–15

Waterford estuary

answering challenges

, 122–123

artefact driven design interpretation practice

, 126–127

decentring of colonial legacies

, 126

Early Irish Settlement

, 116–119

mapping filmic sense of place on

, 128–129

natural resources

, 119–120

Portalis

, 121–122, 130–131

preserving maritime heritage through community projects

, 131–133

promoting and supporting citizen science-based climate action behavioural change

, 123–126

representational challenges in design-led research practice

, 120–121

Waterford Harbour

, 118

Waterford Institute of Technology

, 50–51

Waterford Memories Project

, 102, 105

Waterford Stanley

, 13–14

World Wide Web

, 207

Worldbuilding

, 187–189

Zoē-geo-techno (Multiplicitous subjectivity)

, 189–191