C) Engaging Inhabitants
The ambition
This governance ambition aims at enabling effective participation oh inhabitants in urban development.
Relation to previous work in UrbanA
This governance ambition addresses the driver of injustice:
How could it work?
Engaging inhabitants could consist of making visible people's justice concerns, shifting primary attention to vulnerable groups; diversifying participation options (digital, local, specific groups), enabling participation of handicapped groups (timing, language, compensation...) and/or normalizing citizen juries, plebiscites etc.
See examples
Check out the rich description Barcelona Superblocks case
Take a look at the brief governance scenario Inviting citizens to a transformation of street space - flexibly dealing with resistance
Question
How can inhabitants be better enabled to participate in deliberations about the most urgent objectives and measures of urban development?