Mapping the margins: a review of the impact of digital mapping on public participation in informal settlements

planning, including in informal areas. Participation usually involves some form of data collection and, as much data is spatial, mapping, which is now largely carried out digitally. However, not much is [...] daily lives of residents, which are difficult to capture from the outside or purely on the basis of data. In planning, access to informal areas is not only important for research, but also for the participation [...] published in Habitat International by Alan Américo da Silva, Iasmin Fernanda Kormann da Silva (both Master's students at the Department of Spatial Planning) and René Westerholt explores this interface. The …