Ropero, Justine Marie F.

November 13, 2014

CPD / TTH-17:00-18:30

Arch. M. Florendo

1. Basic principles of community planning

Educate participants
Frame issues neutrally
Achieve diversity and inclusiveness- Involve a demographically balanced
group of citizens reflecting the community.
Get buy-in from decision makers
Support quality deliberation
Work on shared priorities
Make it matter
Sustain involvement
>>A planned community should always make connection to the public realm to
help users understand the purpose of it. It should educate and preserve norms,
culture not counterbalancing the quality of life of its people and future generation.
It should make place, be convivial and enhance mobility. Promote natural
surveillance to the place through the use of its people as eyes on the streets, and
not through artificial surveillances like CCTVs that in some way around, doesnt
help at all. A community should communicate to its people through architectural
solution that works well, and not just band aid solutions.

2. Define the ff:

a. Community architect- an architect working in consultation with local
inhabitants in designing housing and other amenities.
b. Consensus design approach- is about collaboration and partnership- equal
value and equal power. The consensus process gives multi-dimensionality to
elemental issues which can raise their meaning beyond the merely physical.
c. Participatory planning- is an urban planning paradigm that emphasizes
involving the entire community in the strategic and management processes of
urban planning; or, community-level planning processes, urban or rural.
Participatory planning is important for a number of reasons, including the following.

It can enhance the quality of local governance by creating processes that are
more democratic and equitable. The poor often have little, if any, voice in
government decisions. Consultation and dialogue between local government and
interest groups representing the poor can give the latter more voice and influence
over decisions.

Participatory planning encourages the poor to be more responsible for, involved

in and aware of their role in local governance. It can help reduce potential conflict
and build local peoples feeling of ownership in the governments plan.

Participatory planning can result in programmes that are better and more
efficient. By consulting the poor and giving voice to their concerns and needs, the
resulting actions are more likely to be relevant and appropriate to the conditions
they face. For instance, simply consulting people about their daily schedules can
help government provide services at times when people are likely to make best
use of them.

Participatory planning can increase the transparency of governmental decision

making. This allows citizens to understand how and why the local government is
making certain decisions. It is also a way of holding government members
accountable for what they planned to do. It can improve mutual understanding
and trust between the poor and local government.
d. Patterns of community planning

Figure 1. Comparison of area used for streets, among five typical patterns.

Figure 2. Evolution of street patterns since 1900 showing gradual adaptation to the car.
(M. Southworth, 1997)