"the ability of individuals and social groups to map out, in a true geographic sense, their vision for the future is a key prerequisite for informed and sustainable planning"
- Carver, 2001
"Navigation, participation and visual exploration methods allow far-reaching insights into a planning debate and facilitate the submissions of constructive contributions"
- Rinner, 1999
"It is immodest to think that only professional planners can develop planning solutions, and perhaps more so to think that experts can identify precisely which and how many non‐experts would be of value to a project."
- Brabham, 2009
"the methods that we consider significant and that we believe will be the most important in the next century are these interactive collaborative methods of discourse allowing multi-way communication around tasks and issues, involving the public directly with planners and decision makers, and allowing real learning and change to take place on all sides."
- Innes and Booner, 2000
