Citizen Participation and Urban Administration: From Enemies to Allies?

Abstract

For more than a decade citizen participation and urban administration have been viewed as opposing camps in the city. This essay argues that their traditional enmity may be eroding, to be replaced by an alliance. The essay first traces the history of citizen participation, and then explains how the recent evolution of urban administrators, and citizen groups may have caused both to see increasing advantages in cooperation over confrontation. The essay briefly considers those advantages, as well as some disadvantages, before concluding with a survey of the other symposium articles.

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