Geoweb 2.0 for Participatory Urban Design: Affordances and Critical Success Factors
This addresses the challenge of engaging citizens in urban design processes for urban planners and communities, but it is incremental as it builds on existing Geoweb 2.0 concepts with specific applications.
The paper tackled the problem of using open-source Geoweb 2.0 platforms to support participatory urban design in real-world practices, identifying five affordances such as citizen consultation and design empowerment based on evidence from five field studies, and outlining key success factors for future facilitation.
In this paper, we discuss the affordances of open-source Geoweb 2.0 platforms to support the participatory design of urban projects in real-world practices.We first introduce the two open-source platforms used in our study for testing purposes. Then, based on evidence from five different field studies we identify five affordances of these platforms: conversations on alternative urban projects, citizen consultation, design empowerment, design studio learning and design research. We elaborate on these in detail and identify a key set of success factors for the facilitation of better practices in the future.