Land-use planning and participation: The case of inuit public housing (Nunavik, Canada) |
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Authors: | Marcelle Chabot Gérard Duhaime |
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Institution: | a1Inuit and Circumpolar Studies Group (GÉTIC), Université Laval, Québec, Canada |
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Abstract: | This article examines the role of participation in land-use planning. It discusses a concrete example of planning, related to the construction of social housing in Nunavik, the most northerly region of Québec, Canada, inhabited mainly by Inuit. It looks at how the responsibilities of the various parties involved in the planning process have changed over the past 30 years and strives to understand the exact nature of their responsibilities at the present time. In so doing, it focuses on the role of citizens. This study shows that citizen participation plays a relatively limited role in planning, even though existing legislation makes it an integral part of the process. It helps to fulfil basic land-use planning functions, namely, an economic rationalization function and a political legitimization function. From this perspective, discourse on the democratic virtues of participatory planning is misleading. |
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Keywords: | planning participation land-use planning North Inuit democracy technocracy |
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