The 'Bottom-up' Process - The Idea of Planning Development and Space Design Based on a Social Participation Cover Image

Proces 'bottom-up' - idea planowania rozwoju i projektowania przestrzeni oparta na partycypacji społecznej
The 'Bottom-up' Process - The Idea of Planning Development and Space Design Based on a Social Participation

Author(s): Dominika Muszyńska-Jeleszyńska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Civil Society, Governance, Public Administration
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: bottom-up; process; social participation; spatial planning; local society; facilitation

Summary/Abstract: Bottom-up is an idea of inclusion of city inhabitants intoplanning and projecting processes. The basis of this approach is a realparticipation, engagement, cooperation and common decision-making byvarious actors of projecting process. A key role in the process is played bya local society perceived as a subject and the most important recipient ofthe outcome. The bottom-up process is based on the professional facilitationof content based on recognized legal and ethical assumptions.The main aim of the article is to present ideas and the most importantassumptions of the bottom-up process in the context of socializingthe planning and development processes. The article consists an analysisof the roles of particular participants of the press. Also, it includesa presentation of Dutch experiences in co-realizing planning processeswith inhabitants. The article was created as a result of the author’sexperiences gained through the participation in the project entitled“PWP – nowatorskie narzędzie kształtowania przestrzeni publicznej”.

  • Issue Year: 18/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 279-296
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish