This special issue focuses on scaling up the participation of residents and their associations in planning processes. The need to consider this aspect of participation has long been recognized; indeed, the capacity to go to scale is increasingly seen as essential to successful development initiatives. What is equally well recognized is the failure of multiple efforts to respond adequately to this need for scaling. The papers in this collection explore many facets of the challenge of securing meaningful participation at scale. They clarify the fact that going beyond a local focus means not simply replication but engagement at higher levels of complexity, with a more challenging set of actors and potentially more contested power relations. As Beatrice De Carli and Alexandre Apsan Frediani emphasize in this volume, this means engaging with “the more conflictual, structural factors that underpin city making”. Together these papers help to explain why scaling has been so difficult and suggest ways in which it might be advanced.

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社论：公民参与规划：从邻里到城市

本期特刊侧重于扩大居民及其协会在规划过程中的参与。早就认识到需要考虑参与的这一方面；事实上，扩大规模的能力越来越被视为成功的发展举措必不可少的。同样公认的是，多项努力未能充分满足这种扩展需求。本合集中的论文探讨了确保大规模有意义的参与所面临的挑战的许多方面。他们澄清了这样一个事实，即超越本地焦点不仅意味着复制，还意味着在更高的复杂程度、更具挑战性的参与者和潜在的更有争议的权力关系的参与。正如 Beatrice De Carli 和 Alexandre Apsan Frediani 在本卷中强调的那样，这意味着与“支撑城市建设的更具冲突性的结构性因素”。这些论文一起帮助解释了为什么扩展如此困难，并提出了可以推进它的方法。