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

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F21%3AA22028DT" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/21:A22028DT - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/1/90" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/1/90</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10010090" target="_blank" >10.3390/land10010090</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

Civic participation has an irreplaceable role in the land-use planning process because it contributes a practical perspective to expert knowledge. This article discusses whether there is actually a level of civic participation that can be considered optimal, which would allow experts to effectively obtain information from everyday users of the territory, who have the best practical knowledge of it; experts may also gain sufficient feedback on intended developments, based on knowledge about civic participation from representatives of individual municipalities. The article also proposes measures that can promote an optimal degree of participation in the land-use planning process. The fieldwork was conducted in the form of semi-structured interviews with the mayors of municipalities with a population of up to 2000 inhabitants in selected districts of the Ústí Region (Czech Republic). The results suggest that the optimal degree of civic participation in land-use planning should have a representative extent, so it should not merely be a matter of individuals, but also one of groups of dozens of people, and such groups should encompass a balanced variety of characteristics; an optimal level of civic participation should also provide the maximum number of relevant impulses. Measures that may secure and foster an optimal degree of civic participation in land-use planning include (1) striving to avoid preferring purely voluntary participation; (2) simultaneously utilizing various tools to engage inhabitants; (3) educating inhabitants on a regular basis; and (4) consistently communicating and providing feedback, while also searching for informal means of communication and discussion.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50702 - Urban studies (planning and development)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Land

ISSN

2073-445X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

90

UT code for WoS article

000610351800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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