CRISALIDE (City Replicable and Integrated Smart Actions Leading Innovation to Develop Urban Economies): An Experimental Planning Process Towards Promotion of Innovative Methods and Tools to Face Contemporary Urban Issues in EU and Russian Cities

As games and gamified applications gain prominence in the academic debate on participatory practices, it is worth examining whether the application of such tools in the daily planning practice could be beneficial. This study identifies a research–practice gap in the current state of participatory urban planning practices in three European cities. Planners and policymakers acknowledge the benefits of employing such tools to illustrate complex urban issues, evoke social learning, and make participation more accessible. However, a series of impediments relating to planners’ inexperience with participatory methods, resource constraints, and sceptical adult audiences, limits the broader application of games and gamified applications within participatory urban planning practices. Games and gamified applications could become more widely employed within participatory planning processes when process facilitators become better educated and better able to judge the situations in which such tools could be implemented as part of the planning process, and if such applications are simple and useful, and if their development process is based on co-creation with the participating publics.

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Public participation in planning in the Egyptian context

Challenges of Modern Technology ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0012.2629 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 31-36

Author(s):

Somaya Aboelnaga

Keyword(s):

Public Participation ◽

Urban Communities ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Planning Process ◽

Local Level ◽

The Public ◽

Societal Needs ◽

Urban Issues ◽

Upper Level ◽

Different Levels

Public participation is a critical aspect in the planning, also spatial planning. Its role is changing dramatically as it is present not only in social development but also tackles issues connected with cultural, educational. The most important element in participation is the will to do it – to engage in the process of planning the of life, of new urban communities, and how it is taking place in the planning process at different levels/ scales. There is a need to strengthen the public participation in the Egyptian context. Consequently, there are many cases in public participation related to the different levels (metropolitan, city, action area), connected to urban issues, besides, the sectoral issues related to economic development and societal needs. Thus, there is still a gap between existing national policies and their implementation at local level. The important question is how to achieve the local needs with strategies prepared on upper-level agencies. The main problem, in addition to the environmental issues is the regional disparities, poverty illustrated by low human development index. The research aim is to determine general framework and rules of citizen participation in Egypt by illustrating many cases from Egyptian context, and to examine the process and assess their effectiveness and the paper will end with the policy changes.

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Investigation of the Participatory Approach to Decision Making for Urban Regeneration Intervention

10.20944/preprints202111.0434.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sumana - Jayaprakash ◽

Vimala Swamy

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Public Participation ◽

Planning Process ◽

Research Work ◽

Urban Regeneration ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Urban Context ◽

Urban Issues

Public participation in the decision-making process in Urban Interventions is the key to the success of the project for improving the quality of life of its citizens. The citizen has the democratic right to express his needs and aspiration; he is the final user who experiences the outcomes of the policy decisions. Non involvement of the citizens in the planning process can bring about the misinterpretation of the intention of political leadership and lead to opposition and protest. The inadequate understanding of citizens of the urban context makes public participation ineffective. In this context, the decision-makers are often faced with the challenges of the level of confidence of the citizens about their ideas and responses being incorporated in the project and the confidence of the citizens in the local urban authority in its ability to carry out the project. However, the decision-makers base their decision on the assumption that the citizens have a general understanding of the urban issues. This research work investigates the basis of this assumption. 1. Do the citizens have confidence that the local urban authority considers their choices and responses in the course of decision making 2. Do the citizens have the confidence that the local urban authority can undertake the Urban Regeneration project 3. Whether in the decision-making process of urban regeneration intervention, citizen's responses are backed by a general understanding of urban issues. The case study taken up is of Hassan city. Five areas of crucial importance have been selected based on the development plan report of the city. The integrated approach aims to find the most appropriate area for proposing the Urban Regeneration project. The framework adopted includes 1. Questionnaire survey: to collect citizens’ responses 2. Analysis of variance (ANNOVA) for analysis of the data collected.

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The Pandemic City: Urban Issues in the Time of COVID-19

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13063295 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 3295

Author(s):

Lina Martínez ◽

John Rennie Short

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Health Access ◽

Sustainable Cities ◽

Urban Economies ◽

The Past ◽

Urban Issues ◽

The Way

Pandemics have shaped the way cities are planned and configured. Throughout history, cities have evolved to solve problems of sanitation, hygiene, and health access while providing space and opportunities for the urban dwellers. COVID-19 will have significant implications in the way cities are planned. This recent crisis highlights a number of issues. This paper looks at the context for the pandemic and then reviews studies and debates in four areas: transformations in the configuration of public spaces, transportation, urban connectivities, and urban economies. This pandemic, like other similar episodes in the past, is forcing us to rethink the nature of urban space and may be an opportunity to plan for safer, more sustainable cities.

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