Understanding the Implications of Technology-Enabled Urban Planning Participation for Practice

了解技术支持的城市规划参与实践的意义

• 批准号: ES/V01160X/1
• 负责人: Alexander Wilson
• 金额: $ 11.81万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV01160X%2F1
• 关键词: Understanding; Implications; Technology; Enabled; Urban

The history of planning is a story of changing priorities and influences, with it constantly undergoing reform in its role, ideological stance and political preferences. Early approaches to planning ruled with a heavy hand, with 'all-knowing planners' applying art, and later science, to understanding and solving urban problems. This structure, however, could not accommodate the increasing questioning by the public of planners' decisions and the recognition by planners of the need for citizen input.Current participation methods, however, are unsuitable and unwieldy for many people. It is widely accepted that citizens should have more say in shaping local areas, an agenda developed academically for over thirty years through communicative and collaborative planning theories. However, although the sentiments of enhanced planning participatory forms are often agreed upon, translation of the principles into established political and professional practices is much more difficult to achieve. The bulk of planning participation methods are non-digital and tend to mirror offline methods despite widespread recognition over the last ten years of the opportunities for more citizens to become engaged in the planning system by embracing technology for meaningful participation. Digital systems for urban planning sit at the interface of human computer interaction (HCI) and democratic opportunities for citizen engagement, resting on issues concerning place, politics and communication. In my doctoral research I assessed the degree to which new digital technologies can be designed and deployed to enhance citizen engagement within urban planning and identify ways to overcome some of the challenges with citizen engagement. Through designing, deploying and evaluating speculative digital technologies, the research explored the role of technology in facilitating enhanced citizen participation in planning. The research has already been impactful. ChangeExplorer (a technology developed during my PhD) was implemented and researched as part of central government's 'Future of Statutory Notices Pilot' to understand how site notices could be improved. A paper describing the project is currently the second most downloaded paper in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (with over eight-thousand downloads). The work was also recognised in two Connected Places Catapult 'Future of Planning' reports. A second technology, JigsAudio was noted by Nesta and deployed in a number of impactful projects across the region and internationally.Further work is needed to consolidate the vital conceptual development of this work, and to reinforce the impact of my work to date. This will be done through four intersecting aims: - Build on my track-record of high-quality publications in the social sciences to consolidate my doctoral research through publications: the first brings together the conceptual arguments across my research case studies; with the second reporting on the wider issues that planners experience with new technologies for engagement.- Using my current networks of practising planning professionals, such as my links to the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), and other professional organisations, develop key pathways to impact through targeted engagement with professional audiences.- Disseminate the results at national and international conferences to bolster the impact of my doctoral research and widen my practitioner and researcher networks.- Cement my transition towards an independent researcher by developing an application for ESRC's New Investigator Grant towards the end of the fellowship.

规划的历史是一个不断变化的优先事项和影响的故事，它在角色、意识形态立场和政治偏好方面不断进行改革。早期的规划方法以高压手段统治，“无所不知的规划者”运用艺术和后来的科学来理解和解决城市问题。然而，这种结构不能适应公众对规划者的决定日益增加的质疑和规划者认识到需要公民的投入。然而，目前的参与方式对许多人来说是不合适和笨拙的。人们普遍认为，公民在塑造地方方面应该有更多的发言权，这是一个通过交流和协作规划理论在学术上发展了30多年的议程。然而，虽然人们对加强规划参与形式的看法往往是一致的，但要将这些原则转化为既定的政治和专业做法则困难得多。尽管在过去十年中，人们普遍认识到，通过采用技术进行有意义的参与，更多的公民有机会参与到规划系统中来，但大部分规划参与方法都是非数字化的，往往反映了线下方法。城市规划的数字系统位于人机交互（HCI）和公民参与的民主机会的界面，依赖于有关地点，政治和沟通的问题。在我的博士研究中，我评估了新的数字技术可以在多大程度上被设计和部署，以增强城市规划中的公民参与，并确定克服公民参与的一些挑战的方法。通过设计、部署和评估投机性数字技术，该研究探索了技术在促进公民参与规划方面的作用。这项研究已经产生了影响。ChangeExplorer（我博士期间开发的一项技术）作为中央政府“未来法定通知试点”的一部分实施和研究，以了解如何改进网站通知。一篇描述该项目的论文目前是《环境与规划B：城市分析与城市科学》中下载量第二高的论文（下载量超过8000次）。这项工作也在两份Connected Places Catapult的“未来规划”报告中得到了认可。第二项技术JigsAudio受到Nesta的注意，并在该地区和国际上的许多有影响力的项目中得到了应用。需要进一步的工作来巩固这项工作的重要概念发展，并加强我迄今为止工作的影响。这将通过四个相互交叉的目标来实现：-以我在社会科学领域的高质量出版物的记录为基础，通过出版物巩固我的博士研究：第一个汇集了我研究案例研究中的概念论点；第二份报告是关于规划人员在参与新技术方面遇到的更广泛的问题。-利用我目前的规划专业人士网络，比如我与皇家城市规划研究所（RTPI）、城乡规划协会（TCPA）和其他专业组织的联系，通过与专业受众的有针对性的接触，开发出影响的关键途径。-在国内和国际会议上传播结果，以增强我的博士研究的影响，扩大我的从业者和研究人员网络。-通过在奖学金结束前申请ESRC的新研究员补助金，巩固我向独立研究员的过渡。

项目成果

Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London

• DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2021.1934628
• 发表时间: 2021-06-03
• 期刊: URBAN GEOGRAPHY
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Burrows, Roger;Graham, Stephen;Wilson, Alexander
• 通讯作者: Wilson, Alexander

Common Language of Sustainability for Built Environment Professionals-The Quintuple Helix Model for Higher Education

建筑环境专业人士可持续发展的通用语言——高等教育五重螺旋模型

• DOI: 10.3390/en13225860
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Energies
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Crilly M

COVID-19 and the rise of digital planning: fast and slow adoption of a digital planning system

COVID-19 和数字规划的兴起：数字规划系统的快速和缓慢采用

• DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2022.3
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Town Planning Review
• 作者: Wilson A

"We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on"

“我们团结一致......并希望团结继续下去”

• DOI: 10.1145/3357236.3395452
• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Strohmayer A

Reflections on Deploying Community-Driven Visualisations for Public Engagement in Urban Planning

关于部署社区驱动的可视化以促进公众参与城市规划的思考

• DOI: 10.17645/up.v5i2.3008
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Urban Planning
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Weise S