On Public Participation In Urban Governance

The urban government in the world managed all the cities of most countries. Traditionally, the management of the cities is all the government's duties mainly. The government has taken on all functions and obligations of city. It is adapted with the single main body of city management and the simplex environment.From the 1990's, environmental conditions in the urban government have changed rapidly. These changes of conditions have resulted in the change of the management's idea of city government, the development model of city and the management's pattern of city government. It is required a new city governance.City governance includes government and citizen participation. It is a relationship, a system and an arrangement among the city government, the profit-making organization and city society. Citizen participation is one of the most important parts in the City governance.Citizen participation in the city governance is the request of a city resources proprietor, the benefits corpus and the concept of variety value, is also inevitable in society development and cities management. Citizen participation is the inevitable request of diversified development of modern city, is the indispensable part in the structure of city management; Citizen Participation is the basic characteristic of the democracy administration development, is important contents of all countries administration reform nowadays. Citizen participation is the principle of new public administration, adapted the demand of the modern city development.But in China, the idea and the institution of city participation are very bare. So we should transform the functions of city government, tone up the participation idea of citizens and build up the institution of city participation.