Open City: Applying Participatory Planning Theory to Open Data Initiatives

Title: Open City: Applying Participatory Planning Theory to Open Data Initiatives
Description: Open data initiatives are nearly a decade old and are purported to foster government transparency, public accessibility, and civic engagement; the open data portal is the material expression of these initiatives and is the object of study for my thesis. My hypothesis is that civic engagement is a highly cited goal but is rarely a feature on portals. I include a review of transparency and accessibility as points of comparison to engagement through a content analysis of 68 municipal open data portals. The resultant findings confirm this hypothesis. Subsequently, I discuss the existing limitations and imagine ways planning theory and planners can improve open data as a forum for participation.
Creator: Myros, Kayla
Subject: Urban planning
Contributor: Voulgaris, Carole
Date: 2023-05-18T04:07:21Z; 2023; 2023-05-17; 2023-05; 2023-05-18T04:07:21Z
Type: Thesis or Dissertation; text
Format: application/pdf; application/pdf
Identifier: Myros, Kayla. 2023. Open City: Applying Participatory Planning Theory to Open Data Initiatives. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.; 30521564; https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37375212
Language: en