Batty, Michael;
Shao, Tianqu;
Lopane, Fulvio D;
(2024)
Participatory design based on opinion pooling.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
, 382
(2285)
, Article 20240108. 10.1098/rsta.2024.0108.
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Abstract
We focus here on methods for locating future urban development, ranging from entire towns to site designs. These methods articulate the urban design problem in terms of a series of factors pertaining to different measures of land suitability that are represented as spatial surfaces or maps. In realistic problems, these factors inevitably conflict with one another, and we thus define various design methods that enable us to select optimal locations for development based on weighting these factors in different ways. We begin with methods for resolving conflicts between the suitability maps using simple averaging with equal weights and then introduce methods for representing the interactions between the factors as a hierarchy for how these factors can be related to each other following an order for their differential weighting. We then generalize this method to ways in which a variety of individual experts can pool their knowledge of the problem to achieve a consensus solution using a process of group dynamics. The implication is that these kinds of dynamics might be used to enable effective public participation where conflicts between opinions can be resolved collectively. We are currently exploring this through methods of geodesign where networks of stakeholders, planners and designers can be brought together to solve these problems both empirically as well as formally. This article is part of the theme issue 'Co-creating the future: participatory cities and digital governance'.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Participatory design based on opinion pooling |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rsta.2024.0108 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2024.0108 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | participatory geodesign, land suitabilitymapping, overlay analysis, hierarchicalweighting, Markov averaging, opinion pooling |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203341 |
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