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Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development
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Abstract Today's exponential advancement of information and communication technologies is reconfiguring participatory urban development practices. The use of digital technology implies new forms of decentralised governance, collaborative knowledge production, and social activism. The digital transformation h... view more
Today's exponential advancement of information and communication technologies is reconfiguring participatory urban development practices. The use of digital technology implies new forms of decentralised governance, collaborative knowledge production, and social activism. The digital transformation has the potential to overcome shortcomings in citizen participation, make participatory processes more deliberative, and enable collaborative approaches for making cities. While digital tools such as digital mapping, e-participation platforms, location-based games, and social media offer new opportunities for the various actors and may act as a catalyst for renegotiating urban space and collective goods, digitalisation can also perpetuate or even attenuate existing inequalities and exclusion. This editorial introduces the thematic issue "Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development" which focuses on the trajectories and (dis)continuities of citizen participation through digitalisation and elaborates this with examples from Europe and Asia on how the digital transformation impacts, challenges, or reproduces hegemonic power relations in urban development.... view less
Keywords
urban development; digitalization; citizens' participation; citizens' involvement; new technology
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Free Keywords
activism; citizen participation; multi-stakeholder
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Journal
Urban Planning, 9 (2024)
Issue topic
Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; reviewed