Yang Pei-ju believes that the capital required to undertake participatory planning (including human resources and time) may be more than ten times as expensive as conventional methods, but because the results are more closely in accord with the requirements of the people, the corresponding rate of complications and revisions after the fact is greatly reduced. From a long term perspective, it is unquestionably beneficial.
楊沛儒認為，做參與式設計要付出的成本（包括人力、時間等），可能比傳統式要多十倍以上；但是因為比較符合民眾的需求，日後發生糾紛變更設計的機率相對就少了許多，以長期的角度來看，絕對是有利的。