Cities for Citizens
Understanding the role of participation in planning
By Trivik Verma and Rico Herzog in research open-source
January 1, 0001
Thumbnail image by Alice Dietrich on Unsplash
Identification of Socio-Spatial Value Conflicts in Urban Planning
In the path to more inclusive and sustainable cities, our research aims to identify pluralistic public values and their conflicts in urban space using natural language processing, explanatory spatial analysis and expert workshops.
Urban planning practice is both explicitly and implicitly shaped by value judgements of public officials and planners. As a means to lead to inclusive and sustainable outcomes for citizens in cities, this study is aimed at identifying the social and spatial conflicts emergening from identification of public values in participatory urban planning. We do this by leveraging data originating from the citizenry itself. A mixed methods approach combining a quantitative case study of digital citizen contributions in Hamburg, Germany and expert workshops with stakeholders from the municipality illustrates the spatial distribution of value conflicts inherent to sustainability and livability.
A map of Hamburg, Germany showing showing socio-spatial conflicts measured from input of citizens.
Key Objectives
- Connect value theory to participatory urban planning
- Investigate the means to leverage natural language processing for the analysis of citizen contributions collected with public participation GIS (PPGIS) platforms
- Knowledge utilisation through expert workshops with planning professionals
- Posted on:
- January 1, 0001
- Length:
- 1 minute read, 199 words
- Categories:
- research open-source
- See Also:
- Urban Data Science
- Spatial Impact
- Citizen Voice