Civic initiatives in urban development: : self-governance versus self-organisation in planning practice

• Autores: Ward Rauws
• Localización: The Town Planning Review, ISSN-e 1478-341X, Vol. 87, Nº. 3, 2016, págs. 339-361
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper discusses two distinct interpretations of self-organisation with regard to civic initiatives in urban development. One concerns urban developments in which citizens deliberately organise themselves in order to realise a collective ambition. This interpretation of self-organisation resonates with forms of self-governance. The other is embedded in complexity sciences. It stresses the spontaneous emergence of urban structures on a particular scale out of the uncoordinated interactions between initiatives on a lower level. The paper highlights the similarities and the fundamental differences between both understandings of self-organisation. It also identifies implications of these differences for research on spatial planning policy and recommendations for civic initiatives in urban development.