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"Too many Cooks spoil the Soup" May not be the right connotation when it comes to urban planning, we require as many minds and diversified experiences as possible to do the justice to a city which is either yet to be planned or being redeveloped. Community participation and early brainstorming is the key to a successful city planning, like secret ingredient of an exceptional recipe!
In terms of community participation the focus should be scale, hetroginity and
intensity of citizen engagement in planning process. In terms of early
brainstorming, all concerned citizens - "considering every citizens is a
stakeholder and a client" - can be given opportunity to participate in urban
planning process, that too very early when the plan is still in nebulous state,
not only after draft masterplan is ready. Also, urban planning process should
either come out of planning studio amidst community or planning studio should
open it's door to welcome community and individual user level ideas.
For example, thinking of people who could not contribute or has limited say in
urban planning process till date except some advanced countries, but they do
have specific expectations from their city like all the workforce who are
involved in navigation (drivers), delivery (courier and food delivery guys)
they can contribute in re-strategising ease of navigation and legibility of
city; those in healthcare (doctors, first responders) they can help define/
redefine emergency response routes and ease of healthcare access in terms of
landuse structuring and PSP facility locations; those in safety and security
(police, traffic police) can help in vulnerability and black spot mapping of
city and forming corresponding spatial security and surveillance requirements; those
in F&B industry (mall owners, retail, restaurant owner, cook, food vendors)
can help redefine new age of intensive urban cultivation, shortening
farm-to-plate food supply chain, and propose innovative ways of urban organic
agriculture for self-reliance and food security; those in science
(mathematicians) can help streamline city traffic by running complex
mathematical models and deep algorithms; those in creative fields ( artists,
designers) can help reboot, reactivate and conserve cultural and artistic
heritage of a brownfield city or can lay the foundation of a new vibrant
culture for a greenfield city, and so on; all above inputs to be curtated by
urban planning professionals.
Additionally, there is need to make use of unfathomable descrete or curated
data that already historically exists around specific city and embodiment of
empirical data that exists around the world wrt city planning affair in
general.
Author: Anoop Jha
www.linkedin.com/in/anoopjha
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