The analysis for the condition and reason of public participation in urban planning

Abstract

Urban planning has transformed from technological means in the traditional ideas to the public policy, because it distributes the public interest according to the spatial resources' disposition. It is explicitly stipulated that the urban planning must ask for the opinions of the public and the experts according to the city and countryside plan law, so the advancement of the plan public participation has become the mutual recognition. The author tracked all the process of the compilation of the Ningbo High-tech Industrial Zones regulatory plan and surveyed the condition of the public participation by means of questionnaire survey, stochastic interview and so on, when the plan was announcing. The prime features and initial causes have been analyzed from the Point of Empirical Research in the urban planning compilation stage, at last the author put forward the proposals how to advance the public participation in the urban planning compilation under the present decision tree.