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!
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.
In this first part of a new series about participatory planning techniques, you’ll learn about transect walks.
Urban October 2017 is all about affordable houses, which I look at in a bit more detail in this article.a
Women’s participation in urban planning and the momentum of social media can help to create safer cities for women.
Participatory Budgeting is now being used in 1,500 cities worldwide. Here, I examine this popular tool critically.
I managed to visit all three major counter events happening in Quito during Habitat III.
Two projects in Quito’s La Mariscal neighbourhood are examples of urban revival.
A critical view of the improved, but still flawed public participation process leading up to Habitat III.
The main criticisms regarding the New Urban Agenda are its vagueness, the lacking linkages to the SDGS and former HABITAT documents, the focus on cities, neo-liberal tendencies and a grave shortfall of follow-up mechanisms.
The Informed Cities Conference in Dresden was about sustainability in cities and how to achieve it. In this post, I focus on change and trouble makers and on mechanisms for sustainability transitions.
