Citizen participation: does level of participation really make a difference?: an empirical study of participatory design utilized in a Virginia neighborhood

The literature on participatory design has often communicated that participation in the design process is beneficial. If participation is good, then is more necessarily better? The purpose of this study is to determine whether participants’ satisfaction in the participatory design process and the resultant design is dependent on their level of participation in that process. Two different groups of citizens from the Hamilton-Kerns neighborhood in S.W. Roanoke participated in the design of their neighborhood park. One group was involved in a traditional design process at a low level of participation; the other in a process at a higher level of participation. At the culmination of all workshops, participants were questioned about their satisfaction in the design process and the resultant design, The results suggest that the level of satisfaction was not dependent on level of participation. Rather, the determining factor for level of satisfaction was whether or not the individual had participated in the design process.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Landscape Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Landscape Architecture

Department dc:contributor.department

Landscape Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1989

Author dc:creator

• Gilboy, Elizabeth

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51911

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/51911