Inclusive Urban Planning

 TARGET GROUP: CITIZENS

OBJECTIVES

·        To identify a model for assessing to sustainability in urbanization.

·        To draft a plan and work for its implementation in urban areas through citizen participation in urban planning.

·        To provide consultancy to potential entrepreneurs regarding urban electricity or water services, land rights and tenure, transportation and urban physical mobility and the socio-economic services of the city, including employment, financial services, and cultural services.

SUMMARY

A number of challenges exists to encouraging sustainability in urbanisation in the developing world. A common approach over the last 30 years, has been to focus on a growth-first plan for development, particularly in new urban areas. This entails encouraging the greatest amount of economic growth through country-level and local planning practices. In theory, growth-first development planning leads to a relatively equitable urban society, however in practice due to policy decisions and externalities, this has not been the case. Most often this manifests through ensuring that rights for marginalised or previously-excluded groups, such as women and children, migrant workers or refugees, are accounted for in planning policies, and plans that may exclude these groups are modified to accommodate them equally.

REFERENCE

http://samsetproject.net/