Decision Making in City Planning: Processes of Visioning and Stakeholders Engagement and their Relation to Sustainable Land-Use in the SATURN Project

The EIT Climate-KIC SATURN project deals with rural-urban territories, their landscapes and environmental challenges. land of our cities regions is fragmented prone to several challenges in terms ecology, governance social coherence. As a result unregulated overlapping different uses complex patterns, landscape fragmentation creates severe the ways perceived, identified therefore managed. consortium working on models help address decision-making process support policy level by applying holistic ideas visioning stakeholder engagement at city scale. diversity three hubs (Birmingham central England, Gothenburg western Sweden, Trentino northern Italy) reflected approaches stakeholders’ processes as well especially adopted activities each location. Within project, we are investigating how these could change perceptions impact strategic actions. Through series designed workshops engagement, aims create toolbox supporting urban, peri-urban regional planning. This paper reports mapping analysis tools, shares examples where were tested during broader scheme. Results demonstrate exercise has changed public about an area this affected towards more effective planning sustainable landscapes. activity demonstrates importance “mapping analysis” various actors involved can effectively engage them seek further collaboration. Questions results differ cases focused broad or targeted specific actions for certain region being explored. Both tools subject approach collaborative open between stakeholders trainers, allowing participants build vision be one-step closer systemic change.