Beyond the rhetoric of participation: New challenges and prospects for inclusive urban regeneration

Ferilli, Guido; Sacco, Pier Luigi; Blessi, Giorgio Tavano

doi:10.1016/j.ccs.2015.09.001

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“…Aitken, 2012;Savini, 2011;Ferilli et al, 2016) and there is much to explore about how to engage people effectively in planning for a better, more just city. It is in this context that this paper presents the example of a citizen's initiative, Engage Liverpool, and its role in facilitating residents as urban change makers.…”

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“…Always, more egalitarian and inclusive ways of participation should be explored (Ferilli, 2016;Arnstein, 1969).…”

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“…Moreover, there is clear evidence that careful design and social vision can pull people (and communities) together to encourage senses of shared citizen-ship (Roberts, 2009;Rogers and Power, 2000;Gehl, 2010;Knox, 2011;New Urbanism, 2014), and that the voice of the citizen is crucial to regenerating cities (Scharenberg and Bader, 2009;Gehl, 2010;Ferilli et al 2016).…”

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Living (in) the city centre, neoliberal urbanism, Engage Liverpool and citizen engagement with urban change in Liverpool, UK

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2017

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The critical current of urban regeneration scholarly research focusses on neoliberal urbanism. In concentrating on the neoliberal economic, business and nancial dimensions as driving forces behind urban change and regeneration, the human dimension of city centres and city centre living is frequently overshadowed. This paper explores the human dimension through the example of Engage Liverpool, a citizen and neighbourhood organisation. This paper investigates citizen engagement with urban development in the setting of the city centre and central waterfront in Liverpool. The paper argues that despite the dominance of global neoliberal forces within regeneration, citizen and neighbourhood organisations such as Liverpool Engage may have the potential to facilitate citizens' participation as change makers in urban (re)development.

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“…Always, more egalitarian and inclusive ways of participation should be explored (Ferilli, 2016;Arnstein, 1969).…”

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confidence: 99%

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2017

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“…Urban planning, indeed, is a field of conflicting stories that keeps on producing the city and attached meanings (Flyvbjerg, 1998). Thus, the city is a polyphonic story (Ameel, 2016;Ferilli, Sacco, & Blessi, 2016), which offers "multiple trajectories" for planners to produce the city's future (Healey, 2007, p. 229;also Jensen, 2007, pp. 217-218).…”

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“…The identity of the place changes and planners need to recognise it (Sandercock, 2010, p. 25). Currently, many scholars argue for applying the multiplicity of local stories in planning processes to ensure our cities remain humane, inclusive and diverse (e.g., Ameel, 2016;Ferilli et al, 2016;Sandercock, 2010). The local stories can tell planners what is meaningful about the place (Hillier & Van Wezemael, 2012, pp.…”

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A Polyphonic Story of Urban Densification

Wallin

Leino

Jokinen

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Urban strategies, representing stories of possible futures, often intervene in already established local communities and therefore call for a considerate urban intervention. This article utilises the ideas of Henri Lefebvre's socially produced space and of literature on stories involved in planning. Our empirical example tells a story of urban densification aspirations for an inner-city neighbourhood in Tampere, Finland. By combining the interviews of local people and planners with policy documents, we argue that planners' stories pay too little attention to the place and to local stories. Planners' abstract visions of the future and local stories building on lived experiences both draw meanings from the same place but have very different intentions. In our case, the consultation of the project started out wrong because the planners neglected a neighbourhood thick in symbolic meanings and the local stories' power in resistance. By understanding the place as polyphonic in its foundation, planners could learn about the symbolic elements and reasons for people's place attachment, and thus end up re-writing the place together. Urban interventions such as urban densification should connect to the place as part of its polyphonic historical continuum and acknowledge the residents' place attachments.

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Community‐based participatory research for urban regeneration: Bridging the dichotomies through the exp‐EIA method

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Boffi,

Piga

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Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Urban environment design profoundly influences citizens' health and well‐being. Despite the aim of urban regeneration initiatives to enhance community well‐being and social connections, they often struggle to ensure a balance of power among stakeholders, effectively involve citizens, and accurately assess subjective urban experiences. New methodological approaches in community‐based participatory research (CBPR) are advocated to facilitate interactions among social actors and overcome the digital versus real dichotomy. This article introduces the Experiential Environmental Impact Assessment (exp‐EIA) method as a novel research and intervention tool to address these challenges. Grounded in psychology, exp‐EIA aims to integrate emotional, cognitive, and community identity dimensions to capture the nuanced experiences of urban environments. Through digital data collection and visualization tools, exp‐EIA could facilitate participatory decision‐making processes across various stages of urban regeneration projects. Furthermore, its adaptability enables significant integration with existing participatory methods, fostering inclusive engagement and innovative design solutions. The theoretical framework of exp‐EIA, its application in CBPR, and its potential to bridge the gap between technological innovation and citizen engagement in urban regeneration processes are discussed. A blended case study conducted in the metropolitan area of Milan (Italy) is presented, highlighting a promising pathway towards more inclusive and effective approaches to community revitalization.

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Beyond the rhetoric of participation: New challenges and prospects for inclusive urban regeneration

Cited by 78 publications

References 66 publications

Living (in) the city centre, neoliberal urbanism, Engage Liverpool and citizen engagement with urban change in Liverpool, UK

Living (in) the city centre, neoliberal urbanism, Engage Liverpool and citizen engagement with urban change in Liverpool, UK

A Polyphonic Story of Urban Densification

Community‐based participatory research for urban regeneration: Bridging the dichotomies through the exp‐EIA method

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