The paper 'Urban Design and Planning Participation in the Digital Age: Lessons from an Experimental Online Platform' by Stephen Marshall, David Farndon, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Athanasios Kourniotis and Nikos Karadimitriou has been published in Smart Cities journal.
The paper reports on a JPI Urban Europe/ESRC project 'Incubators of Public Spaces', which involves creating a 3D urban design software linked to an online participatory platform for use by local residents to enable them to generate and share design ideas for their housing estate, at Pollards Hill, south London.
The paper reports on some of the challenges and lessons learned encountered in putting the platform into practice, shedding light on participatory planning in the digital age.