Neuro-Participatory Urbanism: Sensing Sentiments and Tracking Perceptions With Machine Learning.

Public places are enablers for diverse and desirable encounters within the city, as evident in the growing efforts by governments in their national policy-making and by academia in their research activities that aim to create mixed-use neighbourhoods capable of supporting such socialization. Novel architectural and urban approaches have thus evolved and developed to engage its users in a pluralistic manner. Public participation, in the form of Participatory Design/Planning, is therefore a powerful component influencing the design of public spaces, while addressing community concerns, especially when public participation in decision-making is lacking.