2024 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
18th Edition
Istanbul: Kadikoy Center Participatory Urban Agenda
The 'Kadikoy Central Participatory Urban Agenda' aims to enable participation practices to directly influence spatial decisions and increase the visibility of local knowledge. Kadikoy Central is a diverse area with various dynamics at the Istanbul and district levels, encompassing elements relevant to many fields of planning practice, such as socio-economic structure, climate change, public space, transportation, urban conservation etc.
Several participation practices on different topics and scales have been conducted within the Kadikoy Central area by IMM, Kadikoy Municipality, and NGOs. Despite having an active civil society structure and high societal inclusiveness, the prevailing belief in the region is that participation processes do not impact spatial decisions. To address this, the 'Participatory Urban Agenda' project has been developed to ensure that participation practices directly influence spatial decisions and enhance trust between society and public institutions.
A total of 89 participation events, some of which were conducted in collaboration with public institutions and civil society, were classified into 7 main and 35 sub-code systems with qualitative-mixed analysis methods. In this analysis conducted with the MaxQDA program, discourse repetitions, weighting of topics, and discourse equality were considered.
After the completion of participation applications, 25 experts, including urban planners, landscape architects, civil and construction engineers working in the region, were selected. Experts were asked to evaluate the topic headings about each other and independently.
By crossing the agenda weights from expert opinions with the agenda weights derived from the participation process, a city agenda focusing on 10 main issues was created using the analytic hierarchy process method. Using the city agenda collaboratively produced through the participation process and upper-scale strategic approaches, the 'Kadikoy Central Strategic Document' was formed. Out of the 67 strategies produced in this strategic document, 47 directly influenced conservation-oriented planning decisions. A new methodology for participation studies was developed by IMM, and an institutional stakeholder database was created.
Thus, local knowledge has been ensured to influence spatial decisions in two stages throughout the participation process. Feedback on the strategic document, planning studies, and participation events continues to be received today.
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