The necessity of strong public participation in planning processes of public authorities has been generally recognized in recent years. It is an area in which public authorities are still undergoing a ...

This project supports foundational research that explores and creates collaborative processes to foster community resilience. Current approaches that characterize resilience are engineering-based and ...

Moving away from top-down approaches, contemporary practices embrace more inclusive and participatory models and design processes. Participatory planning, a notion that prioritizes involving the ...

As international efforts towards adaptation shift from finding the cash to designing the processes through which it will be spent, Anna Petherick asks what we can learn from participatory budgeting. A ...

When I look at the gorgeous libraries in the annual Library Design Showcase, I always wonder what happened behind the scenes that led to a particular design. I’m especially curious how designers ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. On a Tuesday evening in April, one of the first pleasant ...

Sacramentans could soon have more of a say over how they’d like the city to spend taxpayer dollars, after City Council decided on Tuesday they would put money from the city’s general fund into a pilot ...

Following Durham’s municipal elections, community members can still decide the city’s path forward through a process known as participatory budgeting (PB), which allows citizens to propose and vote on ...

What if changing the way the City of Detroit spends a small percentage of its annual budget could change a lot? In Detroit, 18% of eligible voters cast ballots in the last mayoral election — just ...

Residents of District 7, which covers Manhattanville, Morningside Heights, Manhattan Valley, and Hamilton Heights, are joining New York City’s annual participatory budgeting process, through which ...