A Framework for Measuring the Degree of Citizen Participation in Urban Village Reconstruction Projects
Publication: ICCREM 2022
ABSTRACT
During the rapid urbanization process in China, parts of the old urban areas are falling into decay. To revitalize the decaying area and improve the residents’ living quality, urban renewal has become an inevitable theme of urban development. During past decades, citizen participation in urban renewal has attracted considerable attention, for it can ensure social fairness and avoid conflicts among stakeholders in urban renewal projects. However, there is still a lack of a practical method to quantify the degree of citizen participation of urban renewal projects. To fill this gap, this paper develops a framework to measure the degree of citizen participation from the dimensions of breath and depth, which were measured based on the approaches of participation and types of stakeholders involved, and were measured based on Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation, respectively. Finally, the application of this framework was illustrated through a case study on an urban village reconstruction project in Guangzhou, denoting its applicability in quantifying the degree of citizen participation in urban village reconstruction projects.
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