{"id":4472,"date":"2013-11-28T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T11:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blogs\/citizens-in-city-making-2\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T14:22:22","slug":"citizens-in-city-making-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/citizens-in-city-making-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens in city-making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community participation is a constant and often criticized element of the city planning and policy-making process. Can the individual citizen&#8217;s voice really factor into the city&#8217;s future?<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer McAllister of AECOM&#8217;s Infrastructure Advisory in Sydney spoke with the Centre for Livable Cities in Singapore about the challenges and opportunities of the public engagement process. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z7FHL4hcHk4#t=96\">Listen to her comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jake_89x100-56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-520\" src=\"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jake_89x100-56.jpg\" alt=\"Jake_89x100\" width=\"89\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Jake Herson (jacob.herson@aecom.com) is managing editor of the Connected Cities blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community participation is a constant and often criticized element of the city planning and policy-making process. Can the individual citizen&#8217;s voice really factor into the city&#8217;s future? Jennifer McAllister of AECOM&#8217;s Infrastructure Advisory in Sydney spoke with the Centre for Livable Cities in Singapore about the challenges and opportunities of the public engagement process. Listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":4473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[191,215],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-urban-design","tag-connected-cities","tag-public-participation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}