In this section, people are telling their stories about participation. It is intended as an inspirational collection of voices, ideas and experiences from urban neighbourhoods all over the world. The opportunity to participate or make one’s voice heard is usually most limited in informal settlements or poor neighbourhoods. Therefore, these stories focus on ideas for more urban participation in poorer communities. Do you have a story to share from your neighbourhood? Get in touch with me!
Inspired by Jane Jacobs’ book “Death and Life of Great American Cities”, I analyse my own neighbourhood based on her four conditions for a vibrant and diverse neighbourhood.
This article explains the ideas behind tactical urbanism and gives advice on how to “do” tactical urbanism.
Blogging about neighbourhood developments and urban planning initiatives can be a valuable tool for citizens, local governments and urban planners alike.
This article discusses how urban planners can make our cities more resilient, based on what we learned from the Covid-19 crisis.
A critical look at the 10th World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi in February 2020.
Guest author Sonja de Lugo from Pet Friendly Cities explains why public spaces should be designed for both humans and animals.
In Mexico, the dead are celebrated each year during the Día de los Muertos on November 1-2, making them an integral part of the urban landscape.
Here, I discuss the results of my city partnership project cdmXberlin.
In this essay, Dennis Gastelum explores the notion of Berlin as a creative cities and relates experience from a field trip to the Mediaspree area to the Mexican city of Guadalajara.
This is a summary of all articles published on parCitypatory in the last year to celebrate the blog’s second birthday. It also introduced the new consultancy as well as additional projects and external publications.
Using mapping, you can combine the results of auto-photography and transect walks into a great visualisation of the urgent urban planning issues in a neighbourhood.
The second participatory method presented in the series on participatory methods is auto-photography, where you encourage community members to take pictures of problems and potential solutions to them.
