While public participation can improve recovery planning, post-disaster environments pose
unique challenges and opportunities that can enhance or undermine participation …

Enhancing democracy was a paradoxical aspect of the neo-liberal-inspired public sector
reforms that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s in many Western liberal democracies. The so …

Cities and urban regions have become central to ensuring a sustainable future. Many
regions employ strategic spatial planning, a transformative and integrative public-sector-led …

This paper systematises knowledge of public participation by bringing together existing
concepts and theories from planning literature to conceptualise the 3A 3-framework of …

Australian cities have observed a “consensus turn” expressed as broad public support of
greater accessibility and public transport provision as revealed in metropolitan strategic …

Strategic planning has become a fairly routine and common practice at all levels of
government in the United States and elsewhere. It can be part of the broader practice of …

Streetspace reallocation projects are often difficult to plan and implement, attracting great
controversy with residents and other actors. This paper considers two streetspace …

At the 2013 State of Australian Cities (SOAC) Conference, a dedicated plenary session
examined the blunt prospect of “Who cares about Australian Urban Research?” One group …

This paper examines the shift to remote participation in planning board hearings during the
outbreak of COVID-19. Using the results of an exploratory survey among 182 planners …

In this paper, we examine how a framework developed by the International Association for
Public Participation is used to frame and legitimise the participatory practices of local …