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Cities for citizens! Public value spheres for understanding conflicts in urban planning

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  • Rico H Herzog

    (TU Delft, Netherlands
    HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany)

  • Juliana E Gonçalves

    (TU Delft, Netherlands)

  • Geertje Slingerland

    (TU Delft, Netherlands)

  • Reinout Kleinhans

    (TU Delft, Netherlands)

  • Holger Prang

    (HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany)

  • Frances Brazier

    (TU Delft, Netherlands)

  • Trivik Verma

    (TU Delft, Netherlands)

Abstract

Identifying the diverse and often competing values of citizens, and resolving the consequent public value conflicts, are of significant importance for inclusive and integrated urban development. Scholars have highlighted that relational, value-laden urban space gives rise to many diverse conflicts that vary both spatially and temporally. Although notions of public value conflicts have been conceived in theory, there are few empirical studies that identify such values and their conflicts in urban space. Building on public value theory and using a case-study mixed-methods approach, this paper proposes a new approach to empirically investigate public value conflicts in urban space. Using unstructured participatory data of 4528 citizen contributions from a Public Participation Geographic Information Systems in Hamburg, Germany, natural language processing and spatial clustering techniques are used to identify areas of potential value conflicts. Four expert interviews assess and interpret these quantitative findings. By integrating quantitative assessments with the qualitative findings of the interviews, we identify 19 general public values and nine archetypical conflicts. On the basis of these results, this paper proposes a new conceptual model of ‘Public Value Spheres’ that extends the understanding of public value conflicts and helps to further account for the value-laden nature of urban space.

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  • Rico H Herzog & Juliana E Gonçalves & Geertje Slingerland & Reinout Kleinhans & Holger Prang & Frances Brazier & Trivik Verma, 2024. "Cities for citizens! Public value spheres for understanding conflicts in urban planning," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 61(7), pages 1327-1344, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:61:y:2024:i:7:p:1327-1344
    DOI: 10.1177/00420980231207475
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