Boosting web-based public participation in urban planning with a group of key stakeholders

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Nuojua ◽  
Leena Soudunsaari ◽  
Helka-Liisa Hentilä
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Key Stakeholders

Enhancing E-Participation in Urban Planning Competitions

2022 ◽  
pp. 1238-1265
Author(s):  
Pilvi Nummi ◽  
Susa Eräranta ◽  
Maarit Kahila-Tani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Competition Process ◽  
The Impact

Planning competitions are used as a way to determine alternatives and promote innovative solutions in the early phase of urban planning. However, the traditional jury-based evaluation process is encountering significant opposition, as it does not consider the views of local residents. This chapter describes how web-based public participation tools are utilized in urban planning competitions to register public opinion alongside the expert view given by the jury. The research focus of this chapter is on studying how public participation can be arranged in competition processes, how the contestants use the information produced, and how it has been utilized in further planning of the area. Based on two Finnish case studies, this study indicates that web-based tools can augment public participation in the competition process. However, the results indicate that the impact of participation on selecting the winner is weak. Instead, in further planning of the area, the public opinions are valuable.

scholarly journals Web-based Public Participation in Urban Planning Competitions

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susa Eräranta ◽  
Maarit Kahila-Tani ◽  
Pilvi Nummi-Sund
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Public Evaluation ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Competition Process

In Finland, planning competitions are used as a way to determine alternatives in the early phase of urban planning. However, the traditional jury-based evaluation process is encountering significant opposition as it does not consider the views of local residents. In recent years, methods of web-based evaluation have been developed and tested to register public opinion in several planning competitions. This paper describes how web-based public participation and GIS-based evaluation tools, such as PPGIS (public participation geographic information system) and public evaluation web pages, are utilised in urban planning competitions. The research focus of this paper is on studying how public participation can be arranged in competition processes and how the competitors use the information produced. In addition, we identify issues that can affect the utilisation of the information. Based on two Finnish case studies, this study indicates that web-based tools can augment public participation in various phases of the competition process.

scholarly journals Web-Based Public Participation in Urban Planning Competitions

2016 ◽  
pp. 1549-1568
Author(s):  
Susa Eräranta ◽  
Maarit Kahila-Tani ◽  
Pilvi Nummi-Sund
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Public Evaluation ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Competition Process

In Finland, planning competitions are used as a way to determine alternatives in the early phase of urban planning. However, the traditional jury-based evaluation process is encountering significant opposition as it does not consider the views of local residents. In recent years, methods of web-based evaluation have been developed and tested to register public opinion in several planning competitions. This paper describes how web-based public participation and GIS-based evaluation tools, such as PPGIS (public participation geographic information system) and public evaluation web pages, are utilised in urban planning competitions. The research focus of this paper is on studying how public participation can be arranged in competition processes and how the competitors use the information produced. In addition, we identify issues that can affect the utilisation of the information. Based on two Finnish case studies, this study indicates that web-based tools can augment public participation in various phases of the competition process.

Enhancing E-Participation in Urban Planning Competitions

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-94
Author(s):  
Pilvi Nummi ◽  
Susa Eräranta ◽  
Maarit Kahila-Tani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Competition Process ◽  
The Impact

Planning competitions are used as a way to determine alternatives and promote innovative solutions in the early phase of urban planning. However, the traditional jury-based evaluation process is encountering significant opposition, as it does not consider the views of local residents. This chapter describes how web-based public participation tools are utilized in urban planning competitions to register public opinion alongside the expert view given by the jury. The research focus of this chapter is on studying how public participation can be arranged in competition processes, how the contestants use the information produced, and how it has been utilized in further planning of the area. Based on two Finnish case studies, this study indicates that web-based tools can augment public participation in the competition process. However, the results indicate that the impact of participation on selecting the winner is weak. Instead, in further planning of the area, the public opinions are valuable.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING A WEB-BASED PPGIS, AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING SERVICE

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W7 ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
N. Ranjbar Nooshery ◽  
M. Taleai ◽  
R. Kazemi ◽  
K. Ebadi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Spatial Knowledge ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Environmental Reporting ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Participatory Gis ◽  
The City

Today municipalities are searching for new tools to empower locals for changing the future of their own areas by increasing their participation in different levels of urban planning. These tools should involve the community in planning process using participatory approaches instead of long traditional top-down planning models and help municipalities to obtain proper insight about major problems of urban neighborhoods from the residents’ point of view. In this matter, public participation GIS (PPGIS) which enables citizens to record and following up their feeling and spatial knowledge regarding problems of the city in the form of maps have been introduced. In this research, a tool entitled CAER (Collecting & Analyzing of Environmental Reports) is developed. In the first step, a software framework based on Web-GIS tool, called EPGIS (Environmental Participatory GIS) has been designed to support public participation in reporting urban environmental problems and to facilitate data flow between citizens and municipality. A web-based cartography tool was employed for geo-visualization and dissemination of map-based reports. In the second step of CAER, a subsystem is developed based on SOLAP (Spatial On-Line Analytical Processing), as a data mining tools to elicit the local knowledge facilitating bottom-up urban planning practices and to help urban managers to find hidden relations among the recorded reports. This system is implemented in a case study area in Boston, Massachusetts and its usability was evaluated. The CAER should be considered as bottom-up planning tools to collect people’s problems and views about their neighborhood and transmits them to the city officials. It also helps urban planners to find solutions for better management from citizen’s viewpoint and gives them this chance to develop good plans to the neighborhoods that should be satisfied the citizens.

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