Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Community engagement through the neighbourhood street festival: Between external simulation and local stimulation. |
| Authors: |
Bråten, Lina Naoroz1 (AUTHOR) lina.n.braten@ntnu.no, Vigen, Marius G2 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.). Nov2025, Vol. 62 Issue 14, p2824-2841. 18p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*URBAN growth, COMMUNITY involvement, FESTIVALS, CITIES & towns, COMMUNITY-based programs, CONCEPTUAL models, POLITICAL participation, PUBLIC spaces |
| Geographic Terms: |
TRONDHEIM (Norway), NORWAY |
| Abstract (English): |
While grassroots initiatives often involve extensive community engagement in response to external (un)desired development, there are also several 'top-down' initiatives where municipalities or external organisations strive to improve neighbourhood engagement. This article focuses on the latter, an externally initiated neighbourhood street festival in Trondheim, Norway. During this festival, temporary interventions and activities are implemented in public spaces to engage citizens in conversations on local urban development and enhance their sense of belonging to the area. Based on street interviews with neighbours and visitors at the festival and in-depth interviews with involved actors, we investigate what these actions contribute locally. We ask: How do neighbourhood-based festivals influence community engagement? How can we understand the organisation of such initiatives more conceptually? Our analysis suggests that the festival finds itself in a delicate balancing act between simulating a local initiative that does not exist and awakening a latent initiative locally by stimulating action. Based on this tension, we suggest a conceptual framework for neighbourhood initiatives relevant to research and practice in urban development and planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Chinese): |
虽然应对外部（不）理想发展的基层举措往往涉及广泛的社区参与，但也有一些"自上而下"的举措，在这种情况下，市政当局或外部组织会努力提高邻里参与度。本文重点介绍后者——挪威特隆赫姆的一个由外部发起的街区街头节日。节日期间，公共场所实施临时干预并举行活动，让市民参与当地城市发展的对话，增强他们对当地的归属感。通过在节日期间对邻居和游客的街头采访以及对参与人员的深入访谈，我们考察了这些行动对当地的贡献。我们的问题是：街区节日如何影响社区参与？我们如何才能从概念上更好地了解此类举措的组织？我们的分析表明，节日本身需要一种微妙的平衡，即在模拟当地不存在的举措与通过刺激行动唤醒当地潜在举措之间进行平衡。基于这种矛盾，我们提出了与城市发展和规划研究和实践相关的街区举措的概念框架。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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