Keywords
citizen participation
social learning
participatory democracy
social movements
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Abstract
During the last three decades, an urbanism defined by megaprojects and top-down planning has been carried out without the real participation of citizens. With the objective of investigating the role played by citizens in the transformation of public space and in the reconstruction of social relations, we analyse process of participation of an urban social movement in the Zorrotzaurre Peninsula, Bilbao, over a decade (2004-2014). Using the research-action methodology and qualitative techniques such as the longitudinal and multilayer narrative (institutional, economic and social actors) in a first phase, and semi-structured interviews in a second, we discover that the task of building spaces of deliberative power is arduous for the citizens, and that it is through the new meeting spaces created by social learning that a paradigm shift in the construction of our cities can arise.
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