Cases

In Bucharest, a growing number of city dwellers are fighting for bicycle rights and bicycle-friendly infrastructure. Supporters began self-organizing in the mid 2000’s and have become a powerful presence in the urban landscape, adopting several strategies of protest, community organizing, and public participation.

In 2003 the Western Australian state department of planning and infrastructure (DPI) undertook three concurrent citizens' juries. The juries were not deployed with the aim of community consultation however; instead they were designed to give DPI staff an insight into deliberative democratic processes, as well as encouraging the department to...