Subject

Participatory Planning. Community Design

  • code 11086
  • course 1
  • term Semester 1
  • type OB
  • credits 3

Main language of instruction: English

Teaching staff

Introduction

Professor Nabeel Hamdi (Oxford Brookes)

This course introduces the theories and concepts of participatory practice and their value in urban upgrading.  The workshop will outline the principles and practices of participation related to current themes in urban development and will outline a guide to good practice.  The first part of the course will provide a structured understanding of the forces that shape and develop cities and particularly in situations of contested urbanisms of the global South, and the contemporary approaches to design and intervening in urban transformations. From this base it deconstructs and re-calibrates the discipline of urban design. Intersecting continental philosophy, participatory design literature and informal urbanism literature the course is set up a re-conceptualizing urban design as the political economy of space, elaborates the building blocks to construct a theoretical understanding of urban design in the global south, and provides examples of how these conceptual approaches are playing out on the ground at different scales in developing cities / local areas. Transformations are thus critically analysed within the context of development, in terms of the different morphologies and tensions that shape current urbanisation patterns and processes, their conflicts and contested nature, and the resistant, formalised or informal practices and experiences of individuals and communities. Thus the role of design, including approaches to and methods of urban analysis to assess and evaluate the potential of local areas, is explored as a multi-dimensional transformative praxis.

Objectives

The workshop will provide students with a structured understanding of the issues, concepts, tools and techniques of participation as related to urban upgrading, with particular emphasis on cities in the global south. Students will develop a working knowledge of how to get information and how to use information when engaging with communities in designing action plans.

Learning outcomes of the subject

* An introduction to participatory concepts and methods and forging multi stakeholder partnerships.

* An understanding of participation and partnerships in relation to good governance.

* A framework for professional interventions in urban upgrading 

* A means for engaging with and mobilising community.

 

Teaching and learning activities

In person

Sessions will be structured to include group work, group discussions, role play and lectures.

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person

Per UIC grading guidelines with emphasis on attendance, quality of participation and graphic and verbal communication.

Bibliography and resources

Hamdi, Nabeel and Goethert, Reinhard (1997) Action Planning for Cities.  A Guide to Community Practice. New York, John Wiley and Sons

 

Hamdi, Nabeel (2004) Small Change: about the Art of Practice and the Limits of planning in cities. London. Earthscan

 

Hamdi, Nabeel (2011) The Placemakers Guide to Building Community. London, Earthscan

 

Hickey, Samual and Mohan, Giles (2004) Partcipation: from Tyranny to Transformation. London, Zed Books

 

Cornwall, Andrea (2011) The Partcipation Reader. London, Zed Books

 

Hamdi, N (2005) Urban Futures IT Publications, Rugby

 

Beall, Jo (ed) (1997) A City for All. London, Zed Books

 

Hamdi, N and Majale, M (2005) Partnerships in Urban Development, IT Publications, Rugby

 

Gehl, J. 2010. Cities for people, Washington, Island Press.

 

Mehta, V. 2008. Walkable streets: pedestrian behavior, perceptions and attitudes. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 1.

 

Tiwari R and Curtis C (2012) Three-pronged Approach to Urban Arterial Design: A functional + physical + social classification. Urban Design International Vol 17:2, pp. 129 -143.

 

Hillier, J. (2003) ‘Agonising over Consensus: Why Habermasian Ideals cannot be “Real”’ in Planning Theory 2 (1): 37-59.

 

Tiwari (2010) Performativity in Cities: Rituals, Bodies, Spaces, Lexington Publishers, Maryland.

 

Tiwari R (April 2010) Integrating the Marginalised – Towards a Connected City in Mateolli L ed. City Futures, 2009

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