Geoinformation Systems of Public Participation as a Tool for Participation Planning

Abstract

This review article analyzes the geoinformation system of public participation (GISPP) as a tool for urban environment mapping, an obligatory part of the participatory planning process. It gives a brief history of GISPP, and presents a GISPP classification of three functional types — for urban environment research, for public hearings on urban projects, and for the participatory design of urban spaces. Examples of foreign and Russian GISPP of those functional orientations are given. The capability of GISPP from the perspectives of sociological and spatial analysis is discussed. The issues and possibilities for the application of GISPP to a participatory mapping of everyday places and daily routes, emotionally significant places, and places for preservation and renewing are illustrated using examples identified via the Mapsurvey tool in Saint-Petersburg in 2020.