A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATORY PLANNING PROCESS USING A CONCEPT OF PROCEDURAL VALIDITY

Participatory planning is a necessity. Unfortunately, participatory planning has various problems that make it ineffective. Human resource capacity as an input factor for participatory planning is still inadequate. The participatory planning process has not optimized the best way of producing the outputs that are needed by the community. Spatial aspects of planning, activities in the space, and budgeting must be aligned. However, empirical facts show the inconsistency of development planning. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between community participation in planning and regional development performance through spatial planning, development, and budget planning alignment, as the mediating variable. This study explore measurement of all three variables using quantitative indicators. The results of this study, using SEM PLS, indicate that the direct relationship of community participation and the performance of infrastructure development is significant if it does not include the mediation variable. Process, results of participatory planning, alignment of spatial and development plans, and alignment of strategic plans with work plans are significant variables. Therefore, local governments need to make efforts to improve participation processes in spatial planning and development so as to improve the regional development planning alignment and performance

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Dialectical Design Dialogues: Negotiating Ethics in Participatory Planning by Building a Critical Design Atlas

Urban Planning ◽

10.17645/up.v5i4.3294 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 238-251

Author(s):

Barbara Roosen ◽

Liesbeth Huybrechts ◽

Oswald Devisch ◽

Pieter Van den Broeck

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Planning Process ◽

Daily Life ◽

Participatory Planning ◽

Dialectical Approach ◽

Urban Transformations ◽

Planning Processes ◽

Everyday Reality ◽

The City

This article explores ‘dialectical design dialogues’ as an approach to engage with ethics in everyday urban planning contexts. It starts from Paulo Freire’s pedagogical view (1970/2017), in which dialogues imply the establishment of a horizontal relation between professionals and amateurs, in order to understand, question and imagine things in everyday reality, in this case, urban transformations, applied to participatory planning and enriched through David Harvey’s (2000, 2009) dialectical approach. A dialectical approach to design dialogues acknowledges and renegotiates contrasts and convergences of ethical concerns specific to the reality of concrete daily life, rather than artificially presenting daily life as made of consensus or homogeneity. The article analyses an atlas as a tool to facilitate dialectical design dialogues in a case study of a low-density residential neighbourhood in the city of Genk, Belgium. It sees the production of the atlas as a collective endeavour during which planners, authorities and citizens reflect on possible futures starting from a confrontation of competing uses and perspectives of neighbourhood spaces. The article contributes to the state-of-the-art in participatory urban planning in two ways: (1) by reframing the theoretical discussion on ethics by arguing that not only the verbal discourses around designerly atlas techniques but also the techniques themselves can support urban planners in dealing more consciously with ethics (accountability, morality and authorship) throughout urban planning processes, (2) by offering a concrete practice-based example of producing an atlas that supports the participatory articulation and negotiation of dialectical inquiry of ethics through dialogues in a ‘real-time’ urban planning process.

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E-musrenbang: a digital framework for local participatory planning at the community level

International Development Planning Review ◽

10.3828/idpr.2021.5 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

Dhimas Bayu Anindito ◽

Saut A. H. Sagala ◽

Ari Krisna Mawira Tarigan

Keyword(s):

Public Participation ◽

City Planning ◽

Planning Process ◽

Good Governance ◽

Participatory Planning ◽

Community Level ◽

Digital Version ◽

Digital Engagement ◽

Transparency And Accountability

It has been a longstanding mission of policymakers, good governance activists and scholars to encourage greater public participation in formulating legal drafts for better city planning. In recent years, emphasis has been placed upon digital engagement as a process which arguably allows more citizens to voice their needs and desires. In Indonesia, an example of such practices can be seen in the e-musrenbang platform, a digital version of a local public participation mechanism in city planning. This study highlights the case of Bandung City of Indonesia by shedding light on the implemented mechanism of e-musrenbang and the stakeholders involved as well as perceptions from its participants. The findings suggest that e-musrenbang has enhanced the transparency and accountability of the overall planning process, however, it has failed to deliver on promises to channel the voices of citizens and solve existing issues of participation.

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Participatory planning in a low-income neighbourhood in Ontario, Canada: building capacity and collaborative interactions for influence

Community Development Journal ◽

10.1093/cdj/bsy031 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 54 (4) ◽

pp. 622-642 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tessa F Nasca ◽

Nadine Changfoot ◽

Stephen D Hill

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

City Planning ◽

Planning Process ◽

Participatory Planning ◽

Urban Life ◽

Planning Theory ◽

Collaborative Interactions ◽

Quality Of Urban Life ◽

Planning Processes ◽

Planning Experts

AbstractThis research evaluated a community-led participatory planning process that sought to involve citizens who are often marginalized within planning processes. Participatory planning – which is theoretically informed by communicative planning theory – may shift the legacy of power and marginalization within planning processes and improve planning outcomes, foster social cohesion, and enhance the quality of urban life. The two-year Stewart Street Active Neighbourhoods Canada (ANC) project aimed to build capacity among residents of a low-income neighbourhood in Peterborough, Ontario and to influence City planning processes impacting the neighbourhood. The project, led by a community-based organization, GreenUP, fostered collaborative interactions between residents and planning experts and supported residents to build and leverage collective power within planning processes. The participatory planning approach applied in the Stewart Street ANC transformed – and at times unintentionally reproduced – inequitable power relations within the planning process. Importantly, we found that GreenUP was a vital power broker between marginalized residents and more formal power holders, and successfully supported residents to voice their collective visions within professionalized planning contexts.

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User perceptions of participatory planning in urban environmental sanitation

Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development ◽

10.2166/washdev.2012.077 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 157-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Christoph Lüthi ◽

Silvie Kraemer

Keyword(s):

Community Participation ◽

Planning Process ◽

Participatory Planning ◽

Process Efficiency ◽

Post Intervention ◽

Environmental Sanitation ◽

User Perceptions ◽

High Satisfaction ◽

The Right ◽

Degree Of Participation

This paper aims to contribute to the growing body of literature on evaluation of community participation in the water and sanitation sector. The first part discusses the conceptual underpinnings of participatory approaches. The paper then analyses stakeholder perceptions about the Household-centred Environmental Sanitation (HCES) approach, a participatory planning approach recently validated in two countries: Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) and Nepal. Post intervention surveys were conducted with experts and key informants in both countries to assess satisfaction regarding degree of participation, effectiveness of planning outcomes and process efficiency of the participatory planning process. It specifically looks at the variability in people's perceptions about the costs and benefits of community participation. Empirical findings show that experts and participants show high satisfaction rates regarding involvement in decision making. The earlier and stronger residents were involved in the process, the higher the satisfaction rate. In a second part, the main findings of expert interviews are contrasted with the perceptions of the community at large which participated in the participatory planning process. A better understanding of community participation in urban settings is needed regarding skills, motivation, time, and defining the right levels of participation.

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