Community Engagement Blog

Understand the community engagement essentials and discover how and why planners involve locals in creating better cities and neighborhoods.

The ProGIS organization recognized Maptionnaire at the GeoForum Summit 2024 for its innovative GIS-based approach to community engagement.

A step-by-step guide to integrating community engagement into the campus planning and design process.

Improve public participation in projects of all scales with digital map-based community engagement

On January 18th, 2024, Maptionnaire organized its annual event for community engagement experts in Helsinki, Finland.

An analysis on how Finnish municipalities, the forerunners in citizen engagement digitalization, are organizing impactful participation in the planning process.

Participatory mapping is superb for engaging communities in the planning process. Discover the best practices, tools, and examples of mapping inside.

Learn how PPGIS affects policymaking and engagement culture in Nuuk within the ArcticHubs project. 

GIS in urban planning enhances data integration, improves communications, and makes community engagement more actionable. More insights inside!

These Maptionnaire updates enable you to engage residents in localized discussions, view your items as a list, and explore answers with Word Clouds.

Find an urban planning podcast from our top 10 list for 2023! Insider tips, best practices, and failures from the industry practitioners.

Grab these 10 guidelines for inclusive community engagement crafted by industry professionals, planners, and academics.

Anna Broberg of Maptionnaire joins the Urbanistica Podcast to discuss how planners can make cities more suitable for children and teenagers.

Find out why rural planning needs citizen engagement, what the main challenges are, and how to overcome them. Project examples inside!

Maarit Kahila, CEO and co-founder of Maptionnaire, joins the ISOCARP Spotlight podcast to discuss citizen engagement in urban planning.