Urban Media Trends for Enabling Citizen Participation in Urban Planning: Old Wine in New Barrels?

Bert P Groot,Robin Effing,Mettina J A Veenstra

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98578-7_5

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In recent years, a plethora of new possibilities for interactive urban planning emerged, fuelled by the rise of smart cities. This paper studies the potential of urban media for reshaping the role of citizens in urban planning. Both the historical role that citizens have played in the development of neighbourhoods and the process of urban planning are presented from a literature review. Furthermore, present visions on urban planning and citizen participation in smart cities are reviewed. Lessons learned from this literature study, are confronted with six main trends in urban media from expert interviews. As a result, we deliver an overview that helps urban planners in neighbourhoods in order to profit from advantages of urban media while avoiding their risks. We found that the development of urban media could have both positive and negative effects with regard to citizen participation in urban planning in neighbourhoods.

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Citizens have become smarter due to their access to the internet, social media and other digital media, in particular in cities
We aimed to explore the influence of urban media trends on area development
It can be concluded that the six main trends we defined regarding the development of urban media, each show their own impact on citizen participation in urban planning

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Citizens have become smarter due to their access to the internet, social media and other digital media, in particular in cities. Both the rise of the smartphone and mobile internet access have reshaped city life. The online toolkit available to smart citizens, can radically reshape the way they engage in the development of their own living environments. Urban media is a term that describes a wide variety of ‘new’ media that influence the use of public space. Examples of such media are mobile smartphone apps, social media, virtual reality and augmented reality [2, 8]

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