Citizen Engagement in Urban Planning – An EPS@ISEP 2022 Project

Involving people in urban planning offers many benefits, but current methods are failing to get a large number of citizens to participate. People have a high participation barrier when it comes to public participation in urban planning – as it requires a lot of time and initiative, only a small non-diverse group of citizens take part in governmental initiatives. In this paper, a product is developed to make it as easy as possible for citizens to get involved in construction projects in their community at an early stage. As a solution, a public screen is proposed, which offers citizens the opportunity to receive information, view 3D models, vote and comment at the site of the construction project via smartphone – the solution was named Parcitypate. To explain the functions of the product, a prototype was created and tested. In addition, concepts for branding, marketing, ethics, and sustainability are presented.

Keywords

Engineering Education European Project Semester Citizen Engagement Urban Planning Public Screen

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/25143

Citation

Cardani, C.G. et al. (2024). Citizen Engagement in Urban Planning – An EPS@ISEP 2022 Project. In: Rocha, A., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Colla, V. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 800. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45645-9_59