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”，另一方面是“公众”）已逐渐转变为多边交流-被理解为广泛的利益攸关方对市政意见形成和决策的不同参与。利益攸关方的差异化表现为有选择地使用不同的沟通形式，例如与关键角色的访谈、行政讲习班、合作讲习班或发展城市街区的会议，这些都与与进程相关的战略相结合。这些整个过程尚未得到探索。为了克服这一研究不足，（1）将系统地描述城市发展不同实际背景下的多边传播过程，（2）将审查关于利益相关者、目标、内容和背景与各自选择的战略和传播要素之间可能相互关系的假设，（3）过程中参与各方的观点（从他们的参与兴趣到对产出的评估）将被捕获并分析过程设计和过程进展之间的相关性。这将在一个三阶段的设计研究中进行：-系统描述三个层面（物业/地区/城市）的多边沟通过程将是选择案例研究的基础。- 要审查潜在的相互关系和了解利益攸关方的观点，就必须先探讨各自的进程，并让一大群利益攸关方参与。这将在大约12个案例研究中进行。- 将与来自广泛科学和实践领域的专家组成一个小组，讨论项目的假设和问题，并审查案例研究结果的普遍性。整个研究过程将伴随着一个国际组成的对话小组。

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.