Stakeholders of participatory planning: a comparison between Megacities and Cities in Europe

Abstract

Participatory planning is regarded as an accelerator of sustainable development, it comes however with its own set of challenges. In this paper, we study the challenges that are explicit to the case of Megacities. As they are more prominent in our current years, megacities form a large portion of their countries' population, not to mention they constitute an issue when combatting climate change. In the context of megacities, the analysis of the participation process requires a breakdown of the biggest difference between its application in cities and that in megacities: the stakeholders and their extrapolation. At the end, a solution for its conduction in megacities is proposed following the learnings from the city of "Vinnytsia" and applying them to the case of the megacity of "London". Keywords: Participatory Planning - Megacities - City Development - Planning Stakeholders