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PLANNING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 322-336Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2015.1052940
Keywords
participatory planning; post-politics; smartphones; localism; Birmingham; UK
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- AHRC's Connected Communities programme [AH/J006580/1]
- AHRC [AH/J006580/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- ESRC [ES/J004642/3] Funding Source: UKRI
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/J006580/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/J004642/3, 1139703] Funding Source: researchfish
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This paper discusses the development of a smartphone app, MapLocal, which seeks to empower residents to gather spatial data about their neighbourhood. Responding to the new Neighbourhood Planning powers offered within the Localism Act, 2011, a pilot scheme was undertaken with 50 participants across two neighbourhoods in Birmingham, UK. The app allows the crowdsourcing of knowledge from individuals to report on different characteristics of their neighbourhood and to undertake visioning exercises developing possible schemes to improve it. We argue that the app enables wider engagement with the early phases of a planning process, partially mitigating the post-political challenge to planning, which seeks to marginalize dissenting voices in order to promote the interests of the powerful.
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