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The Community participation working group first convened in Dublin on
May 28, 2003. The thematic focus of the working group was agreed, as
were the terms of reference:
We defined “community” as a set of actors in the neighbourhood. This
includes all those people, agencies and firms in the neighbourhood that
affect, and are affected, by processes of change in the neighbourhood
Key actors are:
- those who live in the neighbourhood
- those who work in the neighbourhood
- The owners and customers of local businesses and services
Participation is equally broadly defined as “taking part”. Examples
of participation ranged from:
- The generation of partnership structures within the
community/neighbourhood (e.g. Integrated Area Planning in Dublin
) to
- Involvement in the conceptualisation through to implementation
of projects/activities and all the stages in between ( e.g
Kvarterløft in Kongens Engave, Copenhagen Case Study) to
- Involvement that leads to responsibility on the part of actors
for self-governance and the development of a sense of shared
ownership of a project or process (e.g. Neighbourhood Fund,
Berlin Case Study ) to
- Empowerment of the community (e.g. Community Based Housing
Associations, Glasgow Case study )
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Partnership, Urban regeneration and
the European city: a community participation perspective
