Multilateral communication in processes of urban development

在城市规划和发展实践中，传统的、双边结构的公民参与（一方面是“规划者”，另一方面是“公众”）已经逐渐转变为一种多边交流——被理解为广泛的利益相关者在城市意见形成和决策中的差异化参与。表达利益相关者的差异通常是选择性地使用不同形式的沟通-例如与关键参与者的访谈，管理讲习班，合作讲习班或发展城市社区的会议-这些形式与过程相关的战略相结合。这种整个过程尚未得到探索。为了克服这一研究缺陷，(1)将系统地描述不同城市发展实践背景下的多边传播过程；(2)将对利益相关者、目标、内容和语境之间可能存在的相互关系以及各自选择的策略和传播要素进行假设。(3)过程中相关各方的观点（从他们的参与利益开始，直到对输出的评估）将被捕获并分析过程设计和过程进展之间的相关性。这将在三个阶段的设计研究中进行：-系统地描述三个层次（物业/地区/城市）的多边沟通过程将成为选择案例研究的基础。-检查潜在的相互关系和获取利益相关者的观点，必须以探索各自的过程和包括一大群利益相关者为前提。这将在大约12个案例研究中完成。-由来自广泛科学和实践领域的专家组成的小组，将讨论项目的假设和问题，并审查案例研究结果的普遍性。整个研究过程将由一个国际组成的对话小组陪同。

The traditional, bilaterally structured citizen participation (on the one hand "the planning", on the other "the public") in the practice of urban planning and development has been gradually turning into a multilateral communication - understood as differentiating involvement of a wide range of stakeholders in the municipal opinion forming and decision making. Expression of the differentiation of the stakeholders is often the selective use of different forms of communication - e.g. interviews with key players, administration workshops, cooperative workshops or conferences to develop urban neighborhoods - that are combined to process-related strategies. Such entire processes have not yet been explored. In order to overcome this research deficit, (1) multilateral communication processes in different practical contexts of urban development will be described systematically, (2) hypotheses about possible interrelationships between stakeholders, goals, content and contexts on the one hand and the respective chosen strategies and communicative elements on the other hand will be examined, (3) the perspective of involved parties in the process (beginning with their participation interests up to the assessment of output) will be captured and analyzed for correlations between process design and process progression. This will take place in a three-stage design study: - The systematic description of multilateral communication processes at three levels (property/district/city) will be the the basis for the selection of case studies. - The examination of potential interrelationships and the capturing of the stakeholders perspectives will necessarily presuppose an exploration of the respective processes and the inclusion of a large group of stakeholders. This will be done in about 12 case studies. - With a panel of experts from a wide range of science and practice, the hypotheses and questions of the project will be discussed and the generalizability of the findings from the case studies will be examined. The entire research process will be accompanied by an international composed dialogue group.