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Accountable Strategic Planning and Citizen Engagement
Strategic planning for sustainable development involves compelling visions and concerted actions, founded on shared principles and engaging citizens. Foresight towards a consensual vision is the starting stage for transformational change. Co-creation can provide the spark that ignites action through well-orchestrated, transparent and inclusive pathways to concretise the vision. Strategies have to integrate all territorial and temporal dimensions. Time is a scarce and precious resource, which extends the possibilities of space, and can serve as the litmus test of the wellbeing of societies. Urban democracies have to take the pulse of local life and forge directions for change. Leadership should be science-bound and citizen-driven and lead to communities of best practice, excellence and engagement.
Crises provide an opportunity to review and consolidate fundamental values. Cities withstood time by promoting local democracies, which are reinvented every day. Democracy implies the power of citizens and the risk of entrusting citizens with the governance of all. As new models of citizen engagement emerge, this chapter sheds light on the importance of principled governance, leadership at all levels and citizenship. In an increasingly digital world, open cities multiply, in alliance with citizens, academia, businesses and organisations offering invaluable insights for enlightened policy-making. Mobilising and energising partnerships, enriched with quintuple helixes and nudge interventions, can maximise the potential of synergies and serve as catalysts for the green, just, smart and inclusive transition.
Accountable Strategic Planning and Citizen Engagement
Strategic planning for sustainable development involves compelling visions and concerted actions, founded on shared principles and engaging citizens. Foresight towards a consensual vision is the starting stage for transformational change. Co-creation can provide the spark that ignites action through well-orchestrated, transparent and inclusive pathways to concretise the vision. Strategies have to integrate all territorial and temporal dimensions. Time is a scarce and precious resource, which extends the possibilities of space, and can serve as the litmus test of the wellbeing of societies. Urban democracies have to take the pulse of local life and forge directions for change. Leadership should be science-bound and citizen-driven and lead to communities of best practice, excellence and engagement.
Crises provide an opportunity to review and consolidate fundamental values. Cities withstood time by promoting local democracies, which are reinvented every day. Democracy implies the power of citizens and the risk of entrusting citizens with the governance of all. As new models of citizen engagement emerge, this chapter sheds light on the importance of principled governance, leadership at all levels and citizenship. In an increasingly digital world, open cities multiply, in alliance with citizens, academia, businesses and organisations offering invaluable insights for enlightened policy-making. Mobilising and energising partnerships, enriched with quintuple helixes and nudge interventions, can maximise the potential of synergies and serve as catalysts for the green, just, smart and inclusive transition.
Accountable Strategic Planning and Citizen Engagement
Mega, Voula (author)
Human Sustainable Cities ; Chapter: 8 ; 225-250
2022-08-27
26 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Digital Participatory Planning. Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design
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