Urban vision workshop methodology - a tool for spatial justice
Urban vision workshop methodology - a tool for spatial justice

Summary/Abstract: Motives: Public participation in urban planning is institutionalized and generally regarded as goodpractice that should be promoted and implemented beyond the legal procedures for participation.A participatory approach is seen as the opposite of a hierarchical top-down approach and as a tool forachieving spatial justice. However, participatory urban planning poses numerous challenges in termsof both fundamental issues, such as superficiality and a threat to the genius loci of a place and process-related problems, such as technologies, methodology, and trust issues.Aim: This research aims to demonstrate the importance of participatory urban planning as a meansto achieve spatial justice, and to present and test participatory planning tools – the Urban VisionCreation Workshop Approach.Results: The research has shown that the Urban Vision Creation Workshop Approach can improvecitizens’ participation experience, provide more comprehensive data for urban vision development,and contribute to achieving spatial justice.

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