The Key Role of Participation and Futures Workshops

This handbook outlines the community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneration and highlights the key role that participation plays in unlocking the potential which exists to make urban regeneration sustainable. This examination sets out who, from the community, should be engaged in making urban regeneration sustainable and describes different ways for stakeholders to get involved in this process.

Handbook 3 addresses the following frequently asked questions:

• What is the community-based approach to sustainable urban regeneration?
• Why is it important for stakeholder communities to collaborate with one another, build consensus and develop partnerships?
• Why is it important that such partnerships should be well led and subject to good governance?
• Why is participation key to unlocking the potential for urban regeneration to become sustainable?
• Who should be engaged in this process and when do the respective stakeholders need to get involved?
• How can the engagement and involvement of stakeholders in futures workshops help sustain urban regeneration?
• How does participation work in practice?

The handbook has been written for a professional audience. It draws on a broad range of literature to encompass the perspectives of the policy maker, expert advisor and citizen on the community-based approach and highlights the key role participation plays in sustaining urban regeneration and bringing about improvements in the quality of life.