Emotional Mapping in Local Neighbourhood Planning

• DOI: 10.4018/ijepr.2017010101
• Publication Date: 2016-10-19T16:49:27Z
• Authors: Jiří Pánek; Vít Pászto
• Keywords: 11. Sustainability; 0207 environmental engineering; 02 engineering and technology

City planning, decision-making and participation in local administration can be sometimes elitist, closed to the public and non-participatory processes. Citizens are frequently a neglected part of these activities and are usually only involved and considered prior to elections. Yet citizens have a relevant role in the processes of town planning and administration. This paper describes the implementation of a web-based crowdsourcing tool for the collection and visualisation of emotion-based and subjective information on maps. The tool was used in a case study of neighbourhood development consultation in the city of Príbram, the Czech Republic. Visual, textual and statistical analyses showed a similar spatial distribution of some topics within the Križáky neighbourhood and provide results, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in the process of e-participation in urban e-planning. The results presented in this paper allow replication of the research methodology in other areas as well as its implementation.