Abstract e-Participation has been employed by many planning authorities across the world
to facilitate the engagement of people in decision-making processes. Previous studies on e …

Public participation in urban planning often focuses on the effectiveness of participation at
the neighbourhood scale, while less attention is given to metropolitan wide participation …

Public service producers are heavily investing in the development and implementation of
more efficient new digital channels to engage users in citizen sourcing efforts, such as the …

In the context of smart cities, the role of non-state actors (eg, citizens, private sector) in the
policy design and provision of public services has been spreading out, aiming for a more …

Despite the emergence of virtual spaces as arenas for public participation, the geographies
of digital participation have gained relatively little attention. Besides considering who …

This paper discusses how citizens can play the role of sensors, using their perceptions to
discover and report problems using some kind of digital platform. The use of human sensors …

This paper explores how the politics of contestation and resistance attempted to influence a
government initiated urban renewal project. The declaration of the site as state significant …

Public participation experts and scholars alike are experimenting with gamification in their
quest to motivate citizens to participate in urban planning. This chapter investigates the …

Public participation innovations, such as the mobile participation trial analyzed in this paper,
are increasingly adopted in hopes of deepening and broadening participation. The impact of …

Social media is changing how many local communities seek to mobilize alternative political
strategies to disrupt planning processes. The focus of this chapter is the social media and …