Making urban design a public participatory goal: toward evidence-based urbanism

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Urban Design and Planning

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 173-186

  Dyer, Mark ^a   Corsini, Filippo ^b   Certomà, Chiara ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Government; Social impact; Town city planning

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY; REGIONAL PLANNING; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES; GOVERNMENT; PARTICIPATORY PROCESS; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS; SOCIAL IMPACT;

URBAN PLANNING;

DECISION MAKING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOCIAL IMPACT; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

EID: 85029822141     PISSN: 17550793     EISSN: 17550807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/jurdp.16.00038     Document Type: Article

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