Public Participation in China Urban Planning Development

Public participation usually acting as an important role in urban planning of developing countries. In the process of developing, the government need to build new cities and fix the old areas. However, questions must come with the revolution. Citizens want a new, clean, and orderly city to live that has a safe community with some culture characteristic. During this process, citizens would use the tools to make their requirements to the government. This paper will analyze two examples in China of people trying to make demands on local government. The research question is how do social movements differ from the third-party institutions in the public participation of urban planning.