I am irritated (maximally) with the calls - which appear from time to time - to start the revolution. In the field which is close to me - that is in the field of public participation in the urban planning and in shaping of the cityscape. This stays in conflict with the idea of social participation in planning.
What, as the matter-of-fact, is citizens participation in urban planning? This is - explaining it shortest possible - cooperation. The escalation of conflict - which is in natural way present in planning - is the contradiction to participation.
The model describing social participation as a ladder, proposed by Sherry R. Arnstein in 1969 is no more actual. In the literature the paradigm to pose citizens in the opposition to the local authorities was recognized archaic in the early 80-es.
The development of net technologies as well as the development of civic society create the favourable conditions for the development of model of social participation basing on the net structure. Which can be defined as work in small groups over specific subjects. In such a model the differences between the process participants become less significant. Everybody is working together, act to complete the goal. Everybody that is: interested citizens and users of space, investors, owners, organisations acting in the given area, authorities and local administration, planners, scientists - everybody who is interested and engaged. The goal is to improve the quality of environment of everybody's life. That is all. Nothing more. There is no Revolution. There are: sustainable process and durable effects!
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