Land-use planning and participation: The case of inuit public housing (Nunavik, Canada)

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 par...

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Published in:Habitat international 1998-12, Vol.22 (4), p.429-447
Main Authors: Chabot, Marcelle, Duhaime, Gérard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Canada
Citizen Participation
Democracy
Indigenous Populations
Inuit
Land Use
land-use planning
North
participation
planning
Planning methods
Public Housing
Quebec
Social housing
Social Planning
Technocracy
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0197-3975
1873-5428
DOI:10.1016/S0197-3975(98)00019-8