The Research On Public Participation In Urban Planning Of Wenzhou

Public participation, which was firstly introduced into the field of urban planning in 1960s in Britain, now has been widely adopted as a planning technique and concept. Practically, urban planning has gradually transformed from the government-oriented scientific ideal pattern into the public practice pattern, and its purpose is not only as the method of the social resource allocation and urban space layout, but further presented as a social activity that combines public participation and government's orientation which aims at the realization of the sustainable development of urban social economy. As an important part of the development of urban planning, public participation has been a main method of the coordination of the interests' distributions and the resolution of contradictions.This paper, by means of the relative concept definition of the public participation and field of urban planning and the theoretical analysis on the development both at home and abroad, tries to describe the history and development of public participation and urban planning, sum up their lessons and experiences, meanwhile, analysis the conditions and characteristics of the practice of public participation in the urban planning in our country, and thus highlight the urgency and necessity of public participation and urban planning in the new epoch. Taking the case of Wenzhou for example, from the view of a faculty of Wenzhou Urban Planning Bureau, an administrative section of urban planning in Wenzhou, the author, reviewing on the introduction and development of public participation in the urban planning of Wenzhou and the achievements and perplexity during its developing process, states the fact that Wenzhou Urban Planning Bureau, by the means of "the sunshine planning" and various attempts and practices in the public participation in the compilation and management of urban planning, has implemented its urban planning in an effective way. On the other hand, the limitation of public participation, however, brings negative effects---the increase of administrative cost as the result of interests' contests and the decrease of planning efficiency. On the base of this, the structural suggestions on public participation and administration and the measure and suggestions on the supports and improvements on the aspect of relative rules and policies in the process of urban planning compilation are proposed. This paper, exploring the proper and effective public participation system of the city construction in Wenzhou, is of great realistic significance in the effective promotion of the process of public participation in the urban planning of Wenzhou, and thus will be in it's further and orderly development.