Nanke Verloo

1 Introduction The goal of engaging citizens in public decision-making has been central in public administration for decades, particularly in social policy and urban planning, where administrators interact directly with citizens who use social services and live in local development areas.

Introduction In the past decade, transport scholarship has contended that transport extends beyond being a neutral technology of efficient movement, rationally constructed by engineers and planning experts. Rather, it should be perceived as a “complex bundle of often invisible political relations that condense power dynamics” (Enright, 2019: 666).

Introduction The Taipei Performing Arts Centre (henceforth TPAC), designed by the international architecture studio, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (henceforth OMA), recently opened its doors in one of Taipei’s oldest night market districts (see Figure 1).