A Research on Area-Based Urban Governance by Public Participation

Tian Wang,Minghua Huang,Yang Wang,Xiaowei Zheng

doi:10.3390/ifou-c010

Abstract

Transformed from the Western countries, the so called ‘area-based urban governance’ is an innovative planning strategy in China. In general, it means the establishment of an urban planning and governance system by introducing differentiated spatial policies and institutions for different city areas. This paper focuses on a case study on the implementation of this strategy in inner-city areas, for which public participation was involved in order to achieve the area-based, differentiated urban governance. For Luochuan County, Shaanxi Province, the planners proposed to divide the existing built-up areas into several specified zones for differentiated governance policies. Aiming to improve its feasibility and sustainability, the proposal was discussed, revised and optimized through a 3-phase public participation. A model of area-based and participatory urban governance was thus developed in order to balance efficiency and equity in policy making. This model can be regarded as a pilot project to explore a new approach to urban governance and planning implementation in comparable cities.

Highlights

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Combined the recent-published Luochuan city Master Plan (2007-2025), and the Regulatory Planning of the Luochuan County, this study explored the Area-Based Urban Governance pattern according to the current situation of urban environment, proposing the research aimed to form a regional space governance policies to improve the development and construction of new district according to the status quo environment, safeguarding the fundamental interests and life of the citizens in different social class, improving planning the efficiency and operability and providing a realistic approachfor urban space policy formulation and implementation

Summary

Introduction

Regional space policy is often combined with regional spatial planning, such as the European Spatial Development Strategy (ESDP), the fifth National Spatial Planning in Netherlands, etc. These policies can be directly converted to space development strategy in order to make different interest groups seize the substantive policy differences and apply them rationally. The foreign and domestic practical experience focused on the policy formulation process on macro level of governance division under the thought of special regulation(provincial and municipal level), which provides reference in spatial regulation pattern in the view of regional concept, while few studies on micro-level of central urban area spatial regulation pattern can be rarely discovered. To form a new urban management pattern concerning urban center and public interest under the new situation is the key to healthy sustainable urban development

The Foundation of Public Participation in Urban Spatial Governance Division

Research Background

Mode Construction – Public Participation in Urban Area-Based Urban Governance

Designation Criteria of Area-Based Urban Governance

Observations on the Public Participation in Area-Based Urban Governance

Findings

Conclusions