Augmented Reality (AR) for Promoting Public Participation in Urban Planning

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Ahmad Johari Awang ◽  
M. Rafee Majid ◽  
Noradila Rusli
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
General Public ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
Participation Process

Public participation plays a vital role for the developer and local government as this ensures the acceptance of the general public to the proposed project. However, the general public participation rate in the planning process in Malaysia is still at a low level. Hence, this study was conducted to study the use of augmented reality (AR) as a tool in promoting public participation in the planning process. In the study that was conducted, 77 respondents were selected from the general public to evaluate the effectiveness of AR. During this evaluation process, 37 of them were given AR material, and another 40 of them were given classic plan material. By using feedbacks from the public, statistical analysis was done to study the effect of AR and conventional plan material on the willingness for public participation process. The statistical test shows that the participant is more willing to participate in the public participation process when AR material is being used.Keywords: AR, Public Participation, Urban Planning

Enhancing E-Participation in Urban Planning Competitions

2022 ◽  
pp. 1238-1265
Author(s):  
Pilvi Nummi ◽  
Susa Eräranta ◽  
Maarit Kahila-Tani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Competition Process ◽  
The Impact

Planning competitions are used as a way to determine alternatives and promote innovative solutions in the early phase of urban planning. However, the traditional jury-based evaluation process is encountering significant opposition, as it does not consider the views of local residents. This chapter describes how web-based public participation tools are utilized in urban planning competitions to register public opinion alongside the expert view given by the jury. The research focus of this chapter is on studying how public participation can be arranged in competition processes, how the contestants use the information produced, and how it has been utilized in further planning of the area. Based on two Finnish case studies, this study indicates that web-based tools can augment public participation in the competition process. However, the results indicate that the impact of participation on selecting the winner is weak. Instead, in further planning of the area, the public opinions are valuable.

Enhancing E-Participation in Urban Planning Competitions

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-94
Author(s):  
Pilvi Nummi ◽  
Susa Eräranta ◽  
Maarit Kahila-Tani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Competition Process ◽  
The Impact

Planning competitions are used as a way to determine alternatives and promote innovative solutions in the early phase of urban planning. However, the traditional jury-based evaluation process is encountering significant opposition, as it does not consider the views of local residents. This chapter describes how web-based public participation tools are utilized in urban planning competitions to register public opinion alongside the expert view given by the jury. The research focus of this chapter is on studying how public participation can be arranged in competition processes, how the contestants use the information produced, and how it has been utilized in further planning of the area. Based on two Finnish case studies, this study indicates that web-based tools can augment public participation in the competition process. However, the results indicate that the impact of participation on selecting the winner is weak. Instead, in further planning of the area, the public opinions are valuable.

scholarly journals Visualizing a Possible Future: Map Guidelines for a 3D Detailed Development Plan

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Judge ◽  
Lars Harrie
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Specific Property ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Property A ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interactive Maps ◽  
Development Plans

AbstractDetailed development plans (DDPs) legally define what can be built on a specific property. A proper visualization of these plans is important to facilitate public participation in the urban planning process. In most countries, visualizations of DDPs are still in the form of static 2D maps, but there is a movement towards 3D interactive maps. This movement could potentially benefit public participation by improving communication of the plan proposal, but it also raises issues concerning the cartographic design. A challenge is that a DDP visualization does not convey what will be built in an area, but rather what could be built within the legal frame of the DDP. This implies that the uncertainty in the cartographic design needs to be addressed. In this study, we develop (based on literature review) and implement preliminary guidelines of a 3D DDP visualization, including interactivity possibilities to explicitly address the issue of uncertainty in DDP visualization. The preliminary guidelines are evaluated by semi-structured interviews with urban planning professionals, and based on the outcome of these interviews, the guidelines are updated. The movement toward 3D DDP visualizations was stressed by the participants as important for improving the public understanding and participation in the urban planning process, when the appropriate cartography and functionality is applied.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Testbed Planning: Urban Planning in the Intersection between Experimental and Public Sector Logics

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Berglund-Snodgrass ◽  
Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Experimental Logic

Urban planning is, in many countries, increasingly becoming intertwined with local climate ambitions, investments in urban attractiveness and “smart city” innovation measures. In the intersection between these trends, urban experimentation has developed as a process where actors are granted action space to test innovations in a collaborative setting. One arena for urban experimentation is urban testbeds. Testbeds are sites of urban development, in which experimentation constitutes an integral part of planning and developing the area. This article introduces the notion of testbed planning as a way to conceptualize planning processes in delimited sites where planning is combined with processes of urban experimentation. We define testbed planning as a multi-actor, collaborative planning process in a delimited area, with the ambition to generate and disseminate learning while simultaneously developing the site. The aim of this article is to explore processes of testbed planning with regard to the role of urban planners. Using an institutional logics perspective we conceptualize planners as navigating between a public sector—and an experimental logic. The public sector logic constitutes the formal structure of “traditional” urban planning, and the experimental logic a collaborative and testing governance structure. Using examples from three Nordic municipalities, this article explores planning roles in experiments with autonomous buses in testbeds. The analysis shows that planners negotiate these logics in three different ways, combining and merging them, separating and moving between them or acting within a conflictual process where the public sector logic dominates.

scholarly journals Web-based Public Participation in Urban Planning Competitions

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susa Eräranta ◽  
Maarit Kahila-Tani ◽  
Pilvi Nummi-Sund
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Public Evaluation ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Competition Process

In Finland, planning competitions are used as a way to determine alternatives in the early phase of urban planning. However, the traditional jury-based evaluation process is encountering significant opposition as it does not consider the views of local residents. In recent years, methods of web-based evaluation have been developed and tested to register public opinion in several planning competitions. This paper describes how web-based public participation and GIS-based evaluation tools, such as PPGIS (public participation geographic information system) and public evaluation web pages, are utilised in urban planning competitions. The research focus of this paper is on studying how public participation can be arranged in competition processes and how the competitors use the information produced. In addition, we identify issues that can affect the utilisation of the information. Based on two Finnish case studies, this study indicates that web-based tools can augment public participation in various phases of the competition process.

Loss and Gain of the Public Participation in Kunshan Master Plan

2012 ◽  
Vol 468-471 ◽  
pp. 1920-1926
Author(s):  
Wen Jing Mo ◽  
Fei Duan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Master Planning ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Town ◽  
Country Planning

Many cities have taken public participation in practice in urban planning since The Town and Country Planning Act of 2008 specified. In order to understand the present situation, it is making analysis in detail by means of empirical research: in the first, investigating the procedures of the public participation in Kunshan master planning; in the second, evaluating the result of the public participation; in the end, summarizing the loss and gain of the public participation.

What Is a Good Public Participation Process? Five Perspectives from the Public

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROB KRUEGER ◽  
SETH TULER ◽  
THOMAS WEBLER
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Participation Process
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