Smart Public Participation

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-105
Author(s):  
Sarmada Madhulika Kone
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Community Planning ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Inclusive Approach

Systems that exist today tell us about their survival. They were the better possible outcome of their evolution in their given setup (environmental, economic, and political setup). Urbanization-led cities grew in diversity. An inclusive approach in planning through public participation, where people involved in planning process and represent their community, is suitable for such diversified planning regions. Participatory approach is a bottom up method where community planning plays a major role in addressing larger goals. Communities are a group of people with certain commonalities living together and hold equal rights to their community. Developments in ICT gave a smart approach to public participation, where people easily exercise their participation in decision making. The chapter addresses how technology is related to process and enables public participation in urban planning procedure. Addressing the case of Indonesia, the chapter explains how developing nations responds to technology interventions in urban planning.

Excluded communities and participatory land-use planning: experience from informal Roma settlements in Serbia

2021 ◽  
pp. 095624782110240
Author(s):  
Zlata Vuksanović-Macura ◽  
Igor Miščević
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Active Involvement

Citizen participation in the planning and decision-making process in the European post-socialist context is much debated. Still, the involvement of excluded communities in the urban planning process remains understudied. This paper presents and discusses the application of an innovative participatory approach designed to ensure active involvement of an excluded ethnic minority, the Roma community, in the process of formulating and adopting land-use plans for informal settlements in Serbia. By analysing the development of land-use plans in 11 municipalities, we observe that the applied participatory approach enhanced the inhabitants’ active participation and helped build consensus on the planned solution between the key actors. Findings also suggested that further work with citizens, capacity building of planners and administration, and secured financial mechanisms are needed to move citizen participation in urban planning beyond the limited statutory requirements.

scholarly journals The Potential of Strategic Environmental Assessment to Improve Urban Planning in Sierra Leone

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 9454
Author(s):  
Prince T. Mabey ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Abu J. Sundufu ◽  
Akhtar H. Lashari
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Development Framework

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a proactive and collaborative method for environmental management designed to integrate environmental considerations into decision-making; and it is good for Sierra Leone. To understand whether SEA would be useful in the context of Sierra Leone, the authors interviewed 64 out of 78 experts face to face from March to July 2019. In addition, government policies and regulatory documents on environmental management and sustainable development, published articles served as secondary sources of data. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. These Sierra Leonean experts agreed that SEA would be useful for integration and achievement of improved sustainable urban planning strategies. However, the barriers identified to integrating SEA include: not addressing environmental issues during the preparation of policies and programs, insufficient political will, the absence of clear objectives, targets, principles and approaches, overlapping mandates among environmental institutions, and inadequate institutional coordination and non-integrated development framework as barriers to integrating SEA into their work. The study shows that SEA has the potential to have a positive impact on environmental concerns in decision-making, but it would need to be supported by stronger political will, legal frameworks, and improved technical guidance from the policy perspective. Moreover, we propose a conceptual framework for the inclusion of SEA into the urban planning process in Sierra Leone.

An ePlanning Case Study in Stuttgart Using OPPA 3D

2009 ◽  
pp. 250-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Knapp ◽  
Yun Chen ◽  
Andy Hamilton ◽  
Volker Coors
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
3D Visualization ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Disciplinary Process

Urban Planning is a multi-disciplinary process. Social-economic, environmental and natural resources issues need to be considered to ensure urban sustainable development and to enhance the quality of human life. As a result, it is necessary to investigate different urban planning techniques and possible new ways to facilitate the urban planning process. In this context, ePlanning, an important section of eGovernment, emerged. In order to enhance the capability of ePlanning, different ePlanning systems have been developed for different planning tasks and purposes. However, the state of the art in ePlanning practice is mainly limited to text or 2D maps. 3D visualization is rare, especially interactive visualization for public participation. Based on the preliminary research in an EU-funded project (i.e. Virtual Environmental Planning Systems), this chapter presents an online 3D public participation system for urban development called OPPA 3D, and its potential benefit to Rosensteinviertel regeneration in Stuttgart.

Citizen Science Perspectives on E-Participation in Urban Planning

2013 ◽  
pp. 172-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caren Cooper ◽  
Ashwin Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Planning Models

Citizen science is a method for an interested public to share information in order to co-create scientific knowledge, typically drawing on games and hobbies and employing electronic media such as web-based data-entry forms and online social networks. Citizen science has emerged in many fields of science (e.g., ecology, astronomy, atmospheric studies, anthropology) and advanced to produce important research findings based on high-quality, reliable data collected, and/or processed, by the public. In turn, participants have increased their interest in, and understanding of, topics related to citizen science projects, and experienced greater civic engagement and social capital. Urban planning initiatives seek to engage people in activities from data gathering to community discussions. The authors review the history of urban planning models and highlight how e-participation can overcome some of the limitations in traditional planning. The authors review how information and communication technologies (ICT) for Citizen Science methods can facilitate public participation in data collection and co-creating knowledge useful to planning decisions. The authors suggest that such efforts can ensure a collaborative rather than adversarial type of public participation and have added outcomes of increasing involvement of an informed public in other aspects of the planning process.

scholarly journals Bridging Data and Decision Making: Development of Techniques for Improving the HIV Prevention Community Planning Process

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (S2) ◽  
pp. S41-S53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Jenkins ◽  
Ann Robbins ◽  
Kevin Cranston ◽  
Kim Batchelor ◽  
Anne C. Freeman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Community Planning

Professional lobbying in urban planning: depoliticisation or REpoliticisation?

2019 ◽  
pp. 141-156
Author(s):  
Aino Hirvola ◽  
Raine Mäntysalo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
General Terms

This chapter argues that professional lobbying is turning out to be an important factor in the de- and re-politicisation processes of urban development. It describes the phenomenon of professional lobbying in urban planning in general terms. The chapter then draws on public affairs studies, outlining the broad spectrum of tasks of the lobbyist and identifying certain strategies and tactics of lobbying. To question the technocratic logics of contemporary urban governance, the chapter asks what the professionalisation of lobbying means and how it affects the planning process and the related decision-making process. The focus is on the Finnish context and especially on Helsinki.

scholarly journals Public Participation and Trade-Offs in Flood Risk Mitigation: Evidence from Two Case Studies in the Alps

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Scolobig ◽  
Luigi Pellizzoni ◽  
Chiara Bianchizza
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Increasing Demand

There is an increasing demand for improvement of the quality of decisions about flood risk mitigation by fostering public participation in decision-making. However, the extent and way in which formalized participation guarantees good outcomes is still a matter of discussion. This article analyzes different approaches to decision-making for flood risk mitigation by comparing two experiences in the Italian Alps. In Vipiteno-Sterzing, decisions were made by involving citizens in a structured participatory process. In Malborghetto-Valbruna, a formally technocratic (yet substantially inclusive) approach was adopted after the flood that affected the municipality in 2003. Our results critically review the perspective that structured participation is always something "good." In this regard, the way relevant trade-offs between public and private goods were acknowledged and dealt with turned out to be crucial. At the same time, effective participation is closely related to citizens' actual engagement, institutional responsiveness to residents' needs and expectations, and the capacity to harmonize different views and types of knowledge in the development of risk mitigation options. Policy context, choice of approach and quality of outcomes appear as "nested" issues. Further research is needed in order to assess different experiences of decision-making and to set robust conditions for better outcomes in public participation.

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