Design by activism
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2010
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With communities facing unprecedented challenges of sustainability, there is a need for the planning profession to redefine the terms of public participation. This work explores the use of participation; directly connecting people, politicians and the broader community to create sustainable spaces. This MDP identifies opportunities to adopt robust guidelines and recommendations for a participatory public involvement process for new communities in the Calgary context. The recommendations will help to redefine participatory processes in Calgary to enhance sustainability in communities. It will argue for changing the conventional way of planning new communities by engaging the public more rigorously in creating sustainability in new communities. This work argues that the use of public participation has the potential of creating sustainable developments and how the public can complement the planning process. This MDP begins with a discussion of Communicative Action and Dialogical Planning approach to planning and legitimizes public participation as a tool for community planning. It reviews and examines two best-practice case studies in Freiburg and Calgary, discussing methodologies, sustainability, and details of the participatory processes used. The studies aid in understanding how participation and sustainability are connected. Lessons from both case studies are developed into practical recommendations for the Calgary context to be utilized as a strategy to improve the participation process. The recommendations speak to the use of independent organizations helping to facilitate the planning process and the incorporation of education for all participants. The recommendations conclude with a discussion of integrating the independent organizations with the collaborative education sessions, and how political will is essential to implement meaning participation. This work argues that the use of participation has the potential of creating sustainable communities to achieve success in the planning of a community's future. Keywords Public Participation, Collaboration, Engagement, Communicative Action, Freiburg, Calgary, Sustainable Communities.
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Juan, L. M. (2010). Design by activism (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3310