Site concerning issues of urban design and planning.

The creation of the project mojemiasto.org.pl has just begun. The project aims to popularise and explain the urban design and planning issues. The project addressee are CITIZENS.

mojemiasto.org.pl means my place, my town, my environment. When a place belongs to somebody - or to a group of people - it becomes neat,ordered, well managed and friendly. It becomes a good place to live. There is a simple condition of belonging (not necessary being ones property). The place belongs to an individual and a group of people in case when it may be influenced by them.

Public participation in urban planning dates since Greeks. It is inseparable from democracy. In the modern times it has become popular in 60-ties since the movements which took place in American cities downtowns. The contemporary forms of citizens participation in urban planning may be classified into three groups:

- formal,

- educational and surveys of public opinions,

- contemporary methods of participation.

In the last case new participation paradigm has been defined. It is described in literature as net participation which means working in small informal groups over a particular problem. The theory and practice of deliberative democracy has been developing all over the world. The project aim is to provide rich choice of references concerning citizens participation in planning.

05.01.2008. 07:42

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