La participation numérique en urbanisme, une simple amplification des processus existants ?

Pouleur, Jean-Alexandre; Lago, Noémie; Scoubeau, Chantal; Simoens, Pascal

doi:10.4000/terminal.2136

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“…On the left (for Arnstein), information is symbolic participation. On the right (for Pouleur et al [14]), correct information is the basis for participation.…”

Section: Materials From Ngo Fields Have Been Inspiring Since the 60smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most people can't read or write..."), 13 as well as the efficiency of the participation process itself ("We mustn't arouse any desires"). 14 This attitude, which is sometimes legitimately justified by the fear of disappointing residents if decisions taken at other levels of power go against their wishes, has positioned the debate at a technical level (on the right of the figure), distancing it from the expertise of residents, which is nevertheless very valuable for understanding the desirable improvements for the neighbourhood. These mechanisms of mistrust, difficulty in sharing power, and dominance of the technical argument are found in the literature.…”

Section: Complex Participation Processes With Multiple Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This example perfectly illustrates the multitude of factors that impact positively or negatively on a participatory process, which appears fragile both in terms of power games and relations of mistrust between actors. 1 and 2): the one produced in the American context, sometimes reflecting bloody urban struggles, in particular to defend civil rights (Arnstein, 1969), and the other emanating from associative circles of the FWB, inspired by lifelong learning (Pouleur, 2008), initially called into question in the light of the contributions of digital technology (Pouleur et al 2018) and now by the action research conducted in the working-class districts of Franco-Belgian Hainaut. The debate focuses on the pejorative character that Arnstein attributes to elementary forms of participation by placing manipulation and therapy at the base of their ladder.…”

Section: Complex Participation Processes With Multiple Variablesmentioning

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Citizen Participation in Architecture and Urban Planning Confronted with Arnstein’s Ladder: Four Experiments into Popular Neighbourhoods of Hainaut Demonstrate Another Hierarchy

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Widely used and disseminated, Arnstein’s ladder is considered a reference for citizen participation. It, nevertheless, involves a recurrent bias and a certain confusion when confronted with projects in the Belgian and French working-class districts of cross-border Hainaut. Characterised by fundamentally opposed management systems (one bureaucratic and hierarchical, the other democratic or even delegative), these worksites challenge Arnstein’s concepts and allow us to understand that information is not a level in the participation ladder, but the condition for the functioning of the whole system. Likewise, they also teach us that manipulation and delegation are not opposite extremes but can percolate in any level of participation. Finally, they reveal that the interlocking of powers and the interplay of stakeholders can easily turn the established participation mechanism from exemplary to revolting and vice versa.

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“…On the left (for Arnstein), information is symbolic participation. On the right (for Pouleur et al [14]), correct information is the basis for participation.…”

Section: Materials From Ngo Fields Have Been Inspiring Since the 60smentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Complex Participation Processes With Multiple Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Complex Participation Processes With Multiple Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Les pratiques des aménageurs à l’aune des dispositifs numériques. Enjeux de coordination et de contrôle des processus de production urbaine

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2023

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Si les relations entre ville et numérique font l’objet de nombreux travaux, peu de recherches s’intéressent à ce que font les dispositifs numériques aux acteurs qui pilotent la mise en œuvre opérationnelle de l’aménagement urbain, c’est-à-dire les aménageurs, dont une partie des pratiques s’inscrit dans le champ de l’ingénierie urbaine. Or les aménageurs ont recours à une multiplicité de dispositifs issus du développement des technologies numériques. L’article en propose une typologie dressée au prisme des pratiques des aménageurs et questionne leur portée à partir de matériaux recueillis dans le cadre d’une enquête menée auprès de 17 aménageurs publics en Île-de-France et dans de grandes métropoles régionales françaises en 2022. En mobilisant les méthodes de l’analyse de l’action collective organisée appliquée à l’usage des outils de gestion et du numérique, nous avons cherché à connaître les dispositifs mobilisés, leurs modes de conception, d’utilisation et de mobilisation par les professionnels dans leurs activités concrètes d’aménageurs. Nous montrons que ces dispositifs n’ont pas d’effet uniforme sur les pratiques de l’aménagement, dans la mesure où ils sont largement transformés par les aménageurs et par les usages qu’ils en font. Alors que les effets concrets sur les projets eux-mêmes semblent finalement réduits, les dispositifs bousculent parfois les organisations. Ils donnent également à voir les tensions et les ambivalences de la position d’aménageur dans les systèmes d’action, entre enjeux de coordination, mais aussi de pouvoir et de contrôle : le numérique constitue en cela un révélateur des évolutions contemporaines des métiers de l’aménagement urbain.

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Supporting citizen initiatives as part of a project to revitalise a rural municipality: the example of Volonne

Bonnin-Oliveira,

Hatt

2023

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This article examines how drawing up and managing sustainable planning projects in a rural context may reconfigure relations between citizens and public stakeholders, looking at the case of Volonne (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Picking up on the participatory dynamic initiated when the town centre ÉcoQuartier was created, grounded in measures to promote consultation, dialogue, and co-construction, Volonne saw an active and multifaceted citizenship dynamic emerge, analysed here. We consider rural municipalities’ capacity to support and embed citizen initiatives in such approaches seeking to transform the built environment and to develop a “sense of community” in rural areas. Our research brings out the diversity of citizen initiatives and how they help improve the living environment, as well as underscoring the need to modify traditional frameworks of public action. Getting public actors and citizens to work together requires adjustments and connections—some yet to be devised—to respond to coordination difficulties and the risk that initiatives be scaled back to a small group of participants.

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La participation numérique en urbanisme, une simple amplification des processus existants ?

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Citizen Participation in Architecture and Urban Planning Confronted with Arnstein’s Ladder: Four Experiments into Popular Neighbourhoods of Hainaut Demonstrate Another Hierarchy

Citizen Participation in Architecture and Urban Planning Confronted with Arnstein’s Ladder: Four Experiments into Popular Neighbourhoods of Hainaut Demonstrate Another Hierarchy

Les pratiques des aménageurs à l’aune des dispositifs numériques. Enjeux de coordination et de contrôle des processus de production urbaine

Supporting citizen initiatives as part of a project to revitalise a rural municipality: the example of Volonne

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