Stakeholders’ Perception on Public Participation Programme in Promoting Urban Development in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiman Chado ◽  
Foziah Bte Johar ◽  
Zayyanu Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Participation

scholarly journals A Theoretical Framework for the Evaluation of Massive Digital Participation Systems in Urban Planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Hofmann ◽  
Sander Münster ◽  
Jörg Rainer Noennig
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Additional Criterion ◽  
Participation Process ◽  
Diverse Groups

AbstractUrban development that strives to meet democratic ideals and the needs of all stakeholders must incorporate public participation. Contemporary participation processes may employ digital tools that open new possibilities regarding the range of participants and the intensity of participation. In particular, they can uniquely allow for large and diverse groups of participants to be involved in collaborative design processes. Evaluating such processes is important because it allows for the justification of the necessary costs and efforts, as well as continuous improvement. Using the phases specified in the minimal viable process of the U_CODE project as an example, this paper aims at describing criteria for the evaluation of participation processes and propose several possible methods for their assessment. While the majority of these criteria resemble criteria traditionally used to assess public participation in general, this paper proposes an additional criterion, as well as ways of applying all of the criteria to digital participation methods. In addition, the criteria and methods described in this paper not only may be used for evaluative purposes during or after a digital participation process but may also be useful guidelines during the planning stages of participation processes. Hence, it may help to consider these criteria to assess the value of the process during its inception stage to avoid mistakes and to enhance the democratic value of the participation process.

Participatory Urban Development in India: A Tale of Two Townships

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-147
Author(s):  
Ansari Salamah
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Critical Understanding

This paper intends to offer a critical understanding of citizen engagement in the process of city making using two case studies within the Indian context, namely, Magarpatta City in Maharashtra and Auroville in Tamil Nadu. As an initial foray into the issue, it engages with contemporary discourses on the scope and nature of public participation in urban development within the framework of a neoliberal economy. This is followed by a qualitative analysis based on unstructured interviews, which capture the live experiences of the local landowners and residents in each location. The findings indicate that citizen engagement is instrumental in producing socially equitable urbanization. If harnessed well, it offers the possibility for an effective departure from the traditional state-market dynamics, which presently underlie forms of neoliberal urbanism in developing countries. This paper, therefore, makes the case for mainstreaming citizen participation for urban development as an attempt to create a sustainable built environment that caters to the needs of citizens.

Simulating the Generative Process of Urban Form: An Application Using OpenSim

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-404
Author(s):  
Ngoc Hong Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Simulation Methods ◽  
Generative Process ◽  
Immersive Virtual Environments ◽  
Immersive Environment

This article aims to investigate the generative process of urban development using simulation methods. The open-source platform OpenSim was used to allow participants to build immersive virtual environments representing the ancient town of Hoian, Vietnam. Patterns and urban properties are implemented as rules of generative process in urban design. This research not only corroborates Alexander’s methods but significantly improves his and colleagues’ method in providing a clear approach in generative process in urban design. Through the immersive environment of OpenSim, communities are able to establish effective public participation in planning their neighborhood as well as build and test urban codes.

Metropolitan Planning Objectives and Implementation Constraints: Planning in a Post-Fordist and Postmodern Age

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1637-1660 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Filion
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
Implementation Context ◽  
The One

Planning faces the predicament that as recommendations become bolder possibilities for implementation deteriorate. This is imputed to society's transition from a Fordist and modern to a post-Fordist and postmodern era. On the one hand, postmodern values account for more public participation and heightened environmental sensitivity, which translate into proposals for alternative forms of urban development. On the other hand, the implementation of these proposals is impaired by reduced public sector resources as a result of the economic instablity associated with post-Fordism. Another impediment is the difficulty to achieve sufficient support for planning objectives in the postmodern context. This context is marked by a fragmentation of values, attachment to the existing built environment, and suspicion between social groups. The empirical focus is on Toronto's bold metropolitan planning proposals. Most recent planning documents call for reurbanization efforts, a compact urban form, and reduced reliance on the car. In this paper I cast doubts, however, on the eventual actualization of these proposals by highlighting weaknesses in the of present and anticipated implementation context. These are tied to factors that are specific to Toronto, but also to a greater extent to the post-Fordist and postmodern environment.

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