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************************************************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
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