Journal of Urban Studies on Space and Place

Evaluation Analyses of Citizen Participation in over the time, based on the Concept of Communication and Empowerment Community

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Daryoush Moradi 1
Khatereh Amiri 2

1 Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

2 PhD in Urban Planning, Researcher, ACECR, Isfahan branch, Isfahan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/jspr.2024.2030548.1074
Abstract
Citizen participation, a process of public decision that affects individual and collective interests, is a part of democracy within the relationship between empowering citizens and the government, and nowadays, the capability of retaliating in urban planning has been considered in developed societies. Realizing this process, which forms in the context of communication, depends on the empowerment communities process, in which people and communities can affect their environment, leading to decentralization in power. Therefore, this article aims to study and analyze how to promote citizen participation in urban planning through the empowerment of local cohesive communities in the communication platform of virtual space.Therefore by considering three concepts of communication, community empowerment, and citizen participation via three below ways, we tried to find the participation of the three above concepts over time 1- content analyses, 2- historical research, 3-comparative research. The analysis results in this paper express the gradual improvement of citizen participation in urban designing over time and to make more democratized communication; in addition, the possibility of relationship development and network communication in virtual communities and increasing the empowerment of communities are very useful in this process.

Keywords

Citizen Participation
Community Empowerment
Communication
Virtual Vommunity
Urban planning
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  • Receive Date 27 July 2024
  • Revise Date 03 August 2024
  • Accept Date 05 August 2024

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