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There is a growing recognition globally that young people are under-represented or excluded from planning processes, and that this exclusion could have lasting impacts on their development as citizens and their interaction with the built environment. This article focuses on the extent to which youth participation is institutionalized in local government planning efforts in the United States and what explains this institutionalization. Consequently, what are the barriers and local attitudes towards youth participation? The primary data collection for this study is through an online survey that was sent to the census of California local governments. Results show that institutionalization of youth participation in local governance, through local prioritization of youth participation and emphasis of such participation in master plans, is low. Multiple linear regression is used to isolate the factors affecting institutionalization. Anticipated benefits are many, and barriers are primarily capacity related.
Nina Palmy David; Adria Buchanan. Planning Our Future: Institutionalizing Youth Participation in Local Government Planning Efforts. Planning Theory & Practice 2019, 21, 9 -38.
AMA StyleNina Palmy David, Adria Buchanan. Planning Our Future: Institutionalizing Youth Participation in Local Government Planning Efforts. Planning Theory & Practice. 2019; 21 (1):9-38.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNina Palmy David; Adria Buchanan. 2019. "Planning Our Future: Institutionalizing Youth Participation in Local Government Planning Efforts." Planning Theory & Practice 21, no. 1: 9-38.
The growth of smart cities and collateral movements offer new and exciting possibilities for the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for service delivery, civic engagement, and governance. The exponential growth of ICTs and their use in governance both formally and informally highlights the need for urban planners and public administrators who are trained on how to use ICTs to achieve the public interest, maximize the positive impacts of ICTs, and minimize the negative impacts of ICTs. This presents a challenge for professional education to provide a supporting infrastructure that trains urban planners and public administrators for smart city governance in the 21st century. This paper reviews those challenges and suggests changes in content and delivery options that can be implemented in urban planning and public affairs programs.
Nina David; John McNutt. Building a Workforce for Smart City Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for the Planning and Administrative Professions. Informatics 2019, 6, 47 .
AMA StyleNina David, John McNutt. Building a Workforce for Smart City Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for the Planning and Administrative Professions. Informatics. 2019; 6 (4):47.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNina David; John McNutt. 2019. "Building a Workforce for Smart City Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for the Planning and Administrative Professions." Informatics 6, no. 4: 47.
Flexibility sets planned unit developments (PUD) apart from conventional planning and zoning. Using a case study of a PUD project in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I deconstruct the impact of flexibility on the planning process. I find that flexibility emphasizes negotiated decision making in an unconducive institutional setting, results in uncertainty for all actors involved, makes public interest a moving target, and replaces bureaucratic procedures with politics. Although PUDs provide reprieve from local codes and plans, my findings highlight how important it is for municipalities to ensure that the underlying development management framework is of good quality for effective PUD implementation.
Nina P. David. The Role of the Development Management Framework in the Implementation of Flexible Planning Tools: Insights from a Tale of a Local Planned Unit Development Project. Journal of Planning Education and Research 2019, 1 .
AMA StyleNina P. David. The Role of the Development Management Framework in the Implementation of Flexible Planning Tools: Insights from a Tale of a Local Planned Unit Development Project. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 2019; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNina P. David. 2019. "The Role of the Development Management Framework in the Implementation of Flexible Planning Tools: Insights from a Tale of a Local Planned Unit Development Project." Journal of Planning Education and Research , no. : 1.
This paper presents an evaluation of local efforts to manage Great Lakes coastal shorelands through master plans, focusing on Michigan localities. We framed the analysis around the concepts of capacity, knowledge, and commitment. We conducted plan content evaluations, structured surveys of local officials, and multiple unstructured interviews of local officials and citizens through a participatory action research (PAR) program. We analyzed those data, along with census data, using descriptive statistics, correlations, regression analyses, and triangulation of observations. We found that Michigan’s coastal localities are largely failing to consider their coastal areas in their planning, or to adopt meaningful plan policies to manage them, for at least four reasons: damaging erosion and storm events have been relatively infrequent; localities rely on the state to address coastal issues; insurance programs effectively indemnify them when a storm does happen; and—to some extent—shoreland owners push back against proactive local management. To the extent localities are planning, higher overall plan quality is associated with having in-house planning staff (a measure of both capacity and knowledge) and development pressure (knowledge and commitment). To the extent plans address their coastal areas specifically, the adoption of plan policies advancing coastal area management is associated directly with having higher median house values (capacity), in-house planning staff (capacity and knowledge), and development pressure (knowledge and commitment). Focus on coastal management is inversely associated, however, with the use of planning consultants. Higher plan quality is correlated significantly with the adoption of more robust plan policies overall. In sum, having knowledge about coastal dynamics appears important in explaining local planning efforts, but having the capacity to act on that knowledge and the commitment to do so are equally or more important.
Richard K. Norton; Nina P. David; Stephen Buckman; Patricia D. Koman. Overlooking the coast: Limited local planning for coastal area management along Michigan’s Great Lakes. Land Use Policy 2018, 71, 183 -203.
AMA StyleRichard K. Norton, Nina P. David, Stephen Buckman, Patricia D. Koman. Overlooking the coast: Limited local planning for coastal area management along Michigan’s Great Lakes. Land Use Policy. 2018; 71 ():183-203.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRichard K. Norton; Nina P. David; Stephen Buckman; Patricia D. Koman. 2018. "Overlooking the coast: Limited local planning for coastal area management along Michigan’s Great Lakes." Land Use Policy 71, no. : 183-203.
This chapter looks at the potential of the civic technology movement to enhance the development of smart cities and the smart city movement. Civic technology combines open civic data, technology, and a new set of collaborative civic technology practices in order to facilitate effective government. What distinguishes civic technology from traditional uses of technology to improve urban administration is its reliance on open and voluntary sharing of information, ideas, and initiatives among governments and other stakeholders. This has the potential to change the relationship between government and other sectors, and blur the boundaries between them. In the best case, this might promote creativity, education, innovation, and learning; remove barriers to participation, knowledge, and services; and build intellectual, social, and human capacities. This is a qualitatively different proposition from viewing smart cities as simply a continuation of urban politics and management as usual, but with some efficiency and effectiveness gains enabled by improved technology. In a less inspiring possibility, business and technically proficient elites might use the tools of civic technology to capture urban governance and direct it to their own purposes. While it is still too soon to tell whether smart cities will realize a civic-technology utopia, dystopia, or something in between, it is clear that the blurring of boundaries will happen in some form. Urban public management practice and education must therefore work proactively to develop informed strategies that will preserve core values of democratic administration, democracy and efficiency.
Nina David; John G. McNutt; Jonathan B. Justice. Smart Cities, Transparency, Civic Technology and Reinventing Government. Smart Technologies for Smart Governments 2017, 19 -34.
AMA StyleNina David, John G. McNutt, Jonathan B. Justice. Smart Cities, Transparency, Civic Technology and Reinventing Government. Smart Technologies for Smart Governments. 2017; ():19-34.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNina David; John G. McNutt; Jonathan B. Justice. 2017. "Smart Cities, Transparency, Civic Technology and Reinventing Government." Smart Technologies for Smart Governments , no. : 19-34.
Smart cities bring with them the promise of a new period of participatory government. An important ingredient of this political renaissance must be increased fiscal transparency. This is not possible without tools to assess the state of transparency efforts and move them to adequate performance. Excellence in assessment is the key to adequate programming. This chapter looks at the state of online fiscal transparency, assesses how it is currently measured, and offers a framework for improving the assessment of online fiscal transparency in smart cities.
Nina David; Jonathan Justice; John McNutt. Smart Cities Are Transparent Cities: The Role of Fiscal Transparency in Smart City Governance. Smart Cities and Smart Governance 2015, 69 -86.
AMA StyleNina David, Jonathan Justice, John McNutt. Smart Cities Are Transparent Cities: The Role of Fiscal Transparency in Smart City Governance. Smart Cities and Smart Governance. 2015; ():69-86.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNina David; Jonathan Justice; John McNutt. 2015. "Smart Cities Are Transparent Cities: The Role of Fiscal Transparency in Smart City Governance." Smart Cities and Smart Governance , no. : 69-86.
Planned unit developments (PUD) have been celebrated as one of the few means of escape from the stranglehold of Euclidean zoning but little is known empirically about their use and implementation. In this paper, I present quantitative data from Michigan exploring the factors affecting successful PUD implementation. Results indicate that citizen participation, emphasis of PUD regulations, PUD appeal and differences among key players during PUD review have significant impacts on successful PUD implementation. I also find that Michigan municipalities are more successful at achieving mixed-use, density, preservation, affordable housing, community facilities and design through PUDs than through other regulatory vehicles.
Nina Palmy David. Factors Affecting Planned Unit Development Implementation. Planning Practice & Research 2015, 30, 393 -409.
AMA StyleNina Palmy David. Factors Affecting Planned Unit Development Implementation. Planning Practice & Research. 2015; 30 (4):393-409.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNina Palmy David. 2015. "Factors Affecting Planned Unit Development Implementation." Planning Practice & Research 30, no. 4: 393-409.