Urban planning: integrating smart applications to promote community engagement

Abstract

Through the last decades, the development of technology was rapid. As a result, changes in a series of sectors of human life have been observed. One of these sectors is spatial planning, where new applications contribute towards its skillful application. Especially, in the sector of public participation in urban planning procedure, an urge of motivation of the public is noted in order to participate as an active participant who collects data, creates maps, suggests ideas and, finally, accepts or not a design proposal. In that context, this research paper investigates how new technologies contribute in the promotion of community engagement in urban planning. In a parallel manner, this paper attempts to locate the effects that are expected to have technologically advanced applications in participant planning in the local community. In order to examine the above issues, an international literature review occurs and institutional guidelines towards this sector are investigated, in European level. Furthermore, the investigation of case studies is utilized in order to establish a guide of line practices and locate the effects that presented similar policies in societies that implemented them. All the above contribute to an ex-ante evaluation of the application of such practices in Greece, in order to find out how much usefulness will their integration provide to the procedures of spatial planning of the country.

The local community: an entity discriminated against in spatial decision-making in Poland?

“…In the world, despite many years of development of the theory of spatial planning based on cooperation, its practical use remains low (e.g. Maynard et al, 2015;Kahila-Tani et al, 2016;Delitheou et al, 2019) and consists mainly of experimental activities (Nyseth et al, 2019). The participation of local communities in planning is still carried out mainly through traditional methods of social consultation (Baker et al, 2010;Elbakidze, 2015).…”

Land-Use Planning and the Public: Is There an Optimal Degree of Civic Participation?

“…For citizens to be engaged, they must be intrinsically motivated to become involved in the process [57], and the best way to secure their engagement is to induce in citizens the feeling that they own a given project (such as the municipality's territory via the land-use plan), which will lead to their greater creativity and effort [58]. However, for that to be possible, citizens must be informed about both the land-use planning process itself and their means of involvement [36].…”

Współczesne podejścia do uczestnictwa społeczności lokalnej w planowaniu przestrzeni w literaturze naukowej = A review of the scientific literature on contemporary approaches to local community participation in spatial planning

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