Abstract
Barcelos was one of the medium sized Portuguese towns selected to be included in a governmental program aiming at restructuring the country urban network. Each town had to prepare a “City Strategic Plan” as a previous condition to get financial support for the implementation of its strategy. This paper describes how a multicriteria methodology, enhanced with problem structuring techniques, supported the construction of a strategy for Barcelos in direct interaction with planners and the local elected politicians in a decision-conferencing framework. This was a socio-technical learning process that successfully implemented, in a strategic town-planning context, what Bernard Roy defined as “decision aiding”.
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Bana e Costa, C.A., da Costa-Lobo, M.L., Ramos, I.A., Vansnick, JC. (2002). Multicriteria Approach for Strategic Town Planning. In: Bouyssou, D., Jacquet-Lagrèze, E., Perny, P., Słowiński, R., Vanderpooten, D., Vincke, P. (eds) Aiding Decisions with Multiple Criteria. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 44. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0843-4_19
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