Citizenship in action: participatory urban visualization in contested urban space

Kallus, Rachel

doi:10.1080/13574809.2016.1186490

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“…The local community can be a great resource in this process since public space demands a democratic approach [16]. Empowering the public and reducing the institutional power on public space may provide a more relevant and actionable understanding of public spaces to users [17]. Many studies have focused on this participatory approach.…”

Section: Learn From the Publicmentioning

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Understanding Perceived Site Qualities and Experiences of Urban Public Spaces: A Case Study of Social Media Reviews in Bryant Park, New York City

2020

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Urban public spaces are a key component to the well-being and prosperity of modern society. It has been increasingly important to improve the qualities and maximize the usages of urban public spaces. There is a lack of studies that investigate how people use and perceive urban parks using quantitative analysis of location-based social media reviews. This study tackles this gap by introducing a case study that uses social media reviews (Tripadivisor.com) to understand the perceived site quality and experiences of Bryant Park in New York City. A large dataset including 11,419 Tripadvisor reviews from 10,615 users was collected. LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation), a natural language processing and machine learning technique, was used to perform topic modeling analysis that could reveal hidden themes in large amounts of text. The results include five semantic topics and their associated topic terms. A comprehensive overview of the user experiences in Bryant Park were provided along with their weekly and monthly dynamics. The findings provide insights for future public space designers and managers by revealing how users describe the designs and operations of Bryant Park.

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Understanding Perceived Site Qualities and Experiences of Urban Public Spaces: A Case Study of Social Media Reviews in Bryant Park, New York City

2020

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“…Genuine participation is nonetheless exceptional, often linked to flagship or academic projects (e.g., Leddy-Owen, Robazza, and Scherer 2018;Kallus 2016;Toker and Pontikis 2011). In mainstream practice, participatory processes are predominantly public consultations that, although legitimate and informative, regularly lead to narrow involvement of the public, absence of meaningful deliberation, and limited influence of participants in decisions.…”

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Unearthing the political: differences, conflicts and power in participatory urban design

Calderon

2019

Journal of Urban Design

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This paper aims to advance the development of participation in urban design from a substantive standpoint. It departs from a prevailing focus on ideals of participation and describing participatory methods and processes. Instead, the paper stresses the need to acknowledge 'the political' nature of public spaces and how this challenges participatory urban design processes. This leads to a substantive exploration of differences, conflicts and power in the planning and design of public spaces, i.e., unearthing the political. The case of a participatory process in a neighbourhgood of Barcelona illustrates the theoretical discussion. This helps bring forward a much-needed critical and reflective, rather than idealistic, theorization and practice of participation in urban design.

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“…In an attempt to improve understanding and reduce the unpredictability of interpretation, the agency of plans and designs in landscape planning and design processes is becoming an increasingly important object of critical study (van Dijk 2011;Kallus 2016;Raaphorst et al 2017). Furthermore, planning and design visualizations are 'being produced with new techniques and by new actors, within increasingly complex scopic regimes ' (Swords andLiu 2015, 1235).…”

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Knowing your audience: the contingency of landscape design interpretations

Raaphorst

2018

Journal of Urban Design

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To address visual communication issues in landscape planning and design processes, an analytical framework that enables the study and possible anticipation of the interpretation of visual design representations is presented here. This framework consists of a hybrid theory of Peircean social semiotics and Laclaudian post-foundational discourse analysis (PDA). The semiotics of Peirce, through the concept of the interpretant, enable the conceptualization of the discourses that make up the socio-political contexts of design projects as socalled 'interpretive habits' . This framework is demonstrated by partly reconstructing the socio-political context of Rebuild by Design, a design competition organized in the wake of hurricane Sandy in New York. It is suggested through this demonstration that the sign systems and discursive networks that influence the interpretations of design images by different stakeholders can be partially uncovered during the design process itself. By recognizing these interpretive habits during specific phases of the design process, planners and designers could potentially better anticipate the productive and counter-productive interpretations of their design representations.

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Citizenship in action: participatory urban visualization in contested urban space

Cited by 31 publications

References 50 publications

Understanding Perceived Site Qualities and Experiences of Urban Public Spaces: A Case Study of Social Media Reviews in Bryant Park, New York City

Understanding Perceived Site Qualities and Experiences of Urban Public Spaces: A Case Study of Social Media Reviews in Bryant Park, New York City

Unearthing the political: differences, conflicts and power in participatory urban design

Knowing your audience: the contingency of landscape design interpretations

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