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When Citizen Engagement Becomes Paperwork Theater
A Jerusalem resident spent a decade watching objection processes collect hundreds of signatures and change nothing. It turns out planning scholarship has been documenting this since 1969 — and it has four competing names, none as famous as "greenwashing." This episode traces the vocabulary from Arnstein's ladder of citizen participation through participation-washing, engagement theatre, and participatory theatre, and asks what happens when a city's real audience for consultation isn't the residents in the room. Key sources: • Sherry Arnstein, A Ladder of Citizen Participation, *JAPA* 35(4)…
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