Mechanism and Collaborative Governance of Public Participation in Urban Renewal Project

Public is considered to be one of the most important participants in urban renewal projects. The mode of public decision-making has gradually changed from government-led to multi-subject consultative. A good mechanism of public participation can balance interests of all parties and improve decision-making effectiveness. Hence, it is of great practical significance to study public participation mechanism of urban renewal projects from the perspective of collaborative governance. Through previous analysis, it can be proved that the subject, process and environment of participation can affect the performance of urban renewal projects. Then theoretical model and hypothesis were put forward. Empirical analysis was conducted by Structural Equation Model. The results showed that 22 observation variables have passed confirmatory factor analysis, whose factor loadings are all greater than 0.6. The participation subject, participation process and participation environment had significant positive effects on performance of urban renewal projects, and the path coefficients are respectively 0.399, 0.288 and 0.275. On basis of model results and collaborative governance theory, the collaborative governance mechanism of urban renewal projects was designed from government level, public level and social organizations level. Finally, suggestions were put forward for each subject in order to realize effective public participation.