Designing Public Consensus: The Civic Theater of Community Participation for Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners, and Urban Designers

摘要

Complex public process has increasingly become the "inconvenient truth" of contemporary urban design and planning. Conflicts, uncertainties, and competing interests, intensified by media scrutiny, cultural differences, and a multitude of increasingly sophisticated stakeholders, often result in delays if not stalling of projects. Although some participatory techniques are now broadly used in a variety of settings, they are often insufficient in dealing with the new level of complexity in the public arena, which requires new perspectives, knowledge, and sensibility on the part of professionals. It is in this context that Designing Public Consensus is timely and informative.