The Citizen Participation of Urban Movements in Spatial Planning
A Comparison between Vigo and Porto
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4381733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miguel Martinez (0000-0002-9937-4189), Miguel A Martínez (0000-0001-5511-2390, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 147-171 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00956.x |
| OpenAlex | W1602814795 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 36 |
The urban planning of municipal territory is still a key element of urban politics despite competition from other types of spatial planning and the influence of supra-local policies such as those introduced by European institutions. To gauge its importance, I selected the last two master plans developed in the cities of Vigo (Spain) and Porto (Portugal) and examined the contributions of urban movements to citizen participation in these plans. The periods of transition to democracy in both cities prompted the appearance of important citizen movements, but these have evolved differently in each city. This article describes the evolution of these movements in both cities and explains why they culminated in a conflictive participation model in the master plan of Vigo, while in Porto the opportunities for citizen participation in the master plan were neutralized. To conclude, it is argued that this comparison reveals the importance of local contexts of urban governability shaped by a history of strategic interactions between urban movements and elites, which reduces the validity of neoliberal conceptions of governance to explain citizen participation in relation to spatial planning. Resumé L'urbanisation du territoire municipal reste un élément-clé de la politique de la ville malgré la concurrence d'autres types de planification spatiale et l'influence de programmes d'aménagement supra-locaux, comme ceux qui émanent des institutions européennes. Pour évaluer son importance, cette étude a choisi les deux derniers plans directeurs élaborés dans les villes de Vigo (Espagne) et de Porto (Portugal) afin d'analyser ce que les mouvements urbains ont apportéà la participation des habitants dans le cadre de ces plans. Les phases de transition vers la démocratie ont fait naître d'importants mouvements citoyens, ceux-ci évoluant différemment dans chacune des deux villes. Cet article décrit la transformation de ces mouvements et explique pourquoi ils mènent à un modèle participatif conflictuel dans le cas du plan directeur de Vigo, tandis que les possibilités de participation des habitants ont été neutralisées dans celui de Porto. En conclusion, cette comparaison révèle l'importance des contextes locaux de la gouvernementalitéurbaine, celle-ci étant façonnée par l'historique des interactions stratégiques entre les élites et les mouvements urbains, ce qui module la validité des conceptions néolibérales de gouvernance dans leur explication de la participation des habitants en lien avec l'aménagement spatial
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |