Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Neighborhood planning
Citizen participation
Grassroots organizing
Housing
Economic development
Social welfare
Public safety
Health
Education
Recreation
Environment
6 steps
1) Gather up information (demographics & maps)
2) Analyze the planning information you have collected
3) Get some tentative community ideas
4) Generate community choices & develop alternative scenarios
5) Make a written plan
6) Think thru the plan implementation & whether it should be divided into
phases
What is dynamic?
1. STATIC
Topography
Natural Characteristics of the site
BASE CITY
Historical Assets of City
2. DYNAMIC
Land uses
Population
Densities
Utility systems/ Energy
Water distribution system changes
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
Refers to the process enabling communities to increase control over their lives.
Communities are groups of people that may or may not be spatially connected,
but who share common interests, concerns or identities.
Empowerment:
Is a core principle of CD
Means giving people (including the poor, minority and marginalized community
members) the power to be able to make decisions, choices and directions that will
lead to an improvement of their lives.
It means that beneficiaries being the major stakeholders in the development
process have the power to manage their own development
Successful empowerment means making sure that the quitter, less articulate
voices are heard and that the interest of disadvantage sections of the community
are promoted in decision-making areas, whether through direct participation,
representatives or advocates
QUESTIONS
1. INTERVIEW
2. SURVEY
3. READINGS