PL
Artykuł omawia stan refleksji nad celami i zasadami udziału mieszkańców (partycypacji społecznej) w procesach planowania przestrzennego w Polsce. Formułowane w tej dziedzinie cele i zasady (postulaty co do sposobów organizowania partycypacji) są w artykule grupowane (klasyfikowane) oraz odnoszone do międzynarodowych norm i konwencji przyjmowanych w tej dziedzinie.
EN
The article formulates a thesis that social participation, usually associated with the generally conceived democracy, is closely tied with a concrete phase of the development of democracy, with the so-called developed democracy (often referred to as civic society). Its emergence in western countries dates back to the 1960s. Social participation in spatial planning is a variety of citizens' participation in the process of public decision-making. It is characteristic that the last meaningful debate on the goals and sense of social participation in spatial planning took place in Poland early in the 1980s and has not been continued ever since, despite the basic political transformation which occurred in Poland since then. In this situation, the state of social participation in Polish spatial planning is characterised by the underdevelopment of reflection over its goals (and in this connection with the necessary directions in which the participation model should be changed) and the frequent alteration (liquidation, restoration, modification) of the detailed participation procedures in laws regulating spatial planning. There is a lack of a stabilised basic canon of social participation in this field of public life. The article sums up the hitherto articulated postulates as regards the goals and principles, which should accompany social participation in spatial planning in Poland. The article groups and classifies both the goals (normative postulates, values) and the principles (postulates as to the ways of organising participation). They are referred to the international standards and conventions regarding social participation in public affairs managing.