IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cposxx/v36y2015i1p18-34.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Problems and prospects in community engagement in urban planning and decision-making: three case studies from the Australian Capital Territory

Author

Listed:
  • Jenny Stewart
  • Shirley Lithgow

Abstract

Community engagement, both in general and in relation to planning matters, is a widely held value of modern governance. In Australia, community engagement is mandated at local government level across a wide range of policy and administrative issues, from health, to transport, to city planning. Numerous studies have, however, found that the reality falls well short of the ideal of meaningful citizen input into decision-making. Cases where government-sponsored processes have ‘made a difference’ are difficult to find. The reasons for this apparent failure have proved difficult to identify in detail. As a planned city with a highly educated population, Canberra should be a prime site for the involvement of citizens in many aspects of urban planning. The reality is that community engagement remains at the lower end of the scale of collaborative governance. Addressing this issue has led us to probe the nature of Australian Capital Territory governance and the developing contours of power in the city.

Suggested Citation

  • Jenny Stewart & Shirley Lithgow, 2015. "Problems and prospects in community engagement in urban planning and decision-making: three case studies from the Australian Capital Territory," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(1), pages 18-34, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:36:y:2015:i:1:p:18-34
    DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2014.981061
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01442872.2014.981061
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01442872.2014.981061?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jessica Fernandez & Yang Song & Shirin Rezaeimalek & Katherine Melcher & Donnie Longnecker, 2023. "Exploring rural community place assessment through mobility and social media data in Fort Gaines, Georgia," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(2), pages 425-446, April.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:36:y:2015:i:1:p:18-34. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cpos .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.