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作者

Astrid Bjørgen;Karin Fossheim;Cathy Macharis

来源

CITIES,Vol.112,Issue1,Article 103149

语言

英文

关键字

Stakeholder participation;Collaborative processes;Urban planning;Consensus building;Urban freight

作者单位

SINTEF, Postboks 4760 Torgård, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway;Institute of Transport Economics, Gaustadallen 21, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium;SINTEF, Postboks 4760 Torgård, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway;Institute of Transport Economics, Gaustadallen 21, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium

摘要

Although freight issues are often the subject of controversy within urban communities, urban freight stakeholders rarely participate in local planning processes. This paper studies how different criteria to ensure actor participation in collaborative processes are practised in urban freight planning in seven Norwegian cities. The authors link different criteria of actor participation to Arnstein's “ladder of citizen participation”, and study if the collaborative urban freight arenas provide participants with enough power to affect the outcome of improved planning process for urban freight. Participatory observation of collaborative arenas in Norwegian cities, combined with interviews with participating actors, revealed that knowledge and consensus building allowed stakeholders to reach the fifth step on the ladder of participation. The findings suggest that city characteristics influenced what criteria were most important. One important finding was the need to introduce a tenth criterion ‘political and planning anchorage’, which seemed particularly important for private stakeholders' participation in collaborative processes. This finding may be of value to local authorities striving to enhance stakeholder participation and include both private and public stakeholder concerns in urban freight planning.