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What is Public Participation in Urban Planning

Chapter 14
Handbook of Research on E-Planning: ICTs for Urban Development and Monitoring
The process that can enhance the ability of the public to play a significant role in policy-making and can benefit the planners from better information about public preferences and residents’ concerns.
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Can Urban Planning, Participation and ICT Co-Exist?: Developing a Curriculum and an Interactive Virtual Reality Tool for Agia Varvara, Athens, Greece
Vassilis Bourdakis (University of Thessaly, Greece) and Alex Deffner (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-929-3.ch014
Abstract
One of the recent main problems in urban planning is to find ways in order to employ practical, very broad and commonly used theoretical principles such as participation. An additional issue is the exploitation of the possibilities of new technologies. The process of developing a flexible three-part (common core, public and planners) curriculum in the case of Agia Varvara (Athens, Greece) in the framework of the Leonardo project PICT (2002-2005) showed that ICT (Information Communication Technologies) can help in participation, mainly because it constitutes a relatively simple method of recording the views of both the public and the planners in a variety of subjects (both ‘open’ and ‘closed’).
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