A Research about Public Participation in the Process of Master-Urban-Planning in China—An Introduction of Practice of Gathering Public Opinion via Questionnaire Survey
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53043#.VLSJdMnQrzE Author(s) Yang Fan Affiliation(s) Urban Planning Department, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China . ABSTRACT This paper summarizes the practice of public participation via questionnaire survey in the process of working out Master Plan in China. Based on the analysis, the key issue to be desperately solved is the strategic content about urban long-term development, especially highlighted in conducting public participation by ways of questionnaire survey. In this regard, designing the questionnaire’s content and subsequent distribution must provide convenience for townspeople to comprehend and to express themselves, and meanwhile questionnaire retrieving and analysis/conclusion shall be oriented by optimized scheme of spatial distribution. The importance of public participation cannot be overemp...