Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development
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...
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| author | Simone Tappert Asma Mehan Pekka Tuominen Zsuzsanna Varga |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3dcb4353635544479094278971c092c82024-01-16T14:32:51ZengCogitatioUrban Planning2183-76352024-01-019010.17645/up.78103421Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban DevelopmentSimone Tappert0Asma Mehan1Pekka Tuominen2Zsuzsanna Varga3Institute for Social Planning, Organisational Change and Urban Development, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, SwitzerlandHuckabee College of Architecture, Texas Tech University, USACentre for Consumer Society Research, University of Helsinki, FinlandCollege of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, UKToday’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.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/7810activismcitizen participationdigitalisationmulti-stakeholderurban development |
| spellingShingle | Simone Tappert Asma Mehan Pekka Tuominen Zsuzsanna Varga Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development Urban Planning activism citizen participation digitalisation multi-stakeholder urban development |
| title | Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development |
| title_full | Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development |
| title_fullStr | Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development |
| title_short | Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development |
| title_sort | citizen participation digital agency and urban development |
| topic | activism citizen participation digitalisation multi-stakeholder urban development |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/7810 |
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