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A 13 page paper discussing the benefits, problems and responsibility for including the public in urban planning. The paper uses the decline and decay of Detroit and the development of urban sprawl in neighboring areas as an example of an area in which residents have tried to have input but were thwarted for several years as the sprawl problem worsened. Examples from cities such as Seattle and Portland illustrate that planning absolutely can be sustainable over time. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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13 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSpubPlanUrb.rtf
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Gregrson (1990), Winston Churchill once said that "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us" (p. PG). Those buildings collectively comprise cities, in which increasing numbers of
people live. By 2015, the United Nations (UN) projects that there will be 21 "megacities" of at least 10 million people each, 17 of which will be in developing
nations (Population Reports, 2002). Already, urban areas gain approximately one million additional residents each week (Meeting the urban challenge, 2002). "The concept
of public participation has been widely discussed in the literature of planning. Research shows that it also plays a major role in urban planning. Some politicians relate participation to the
rights of citizenship and to democratic governance. The key to understanding public participation in urban planning depends largely upon the identification of the explicit and implicit objectives fundamental to the
process" (Robinson, 2004). "Public participation is an open ongoing, two-way communication both found formally and informally in the planning process. It is related
to societal, historical and democratic views. In this paper I will discuss and identify an institutional alternative that addresses tensions related to public participation in urban planning and the problems
associated with collaboration. This paper will provide a brief overview of the process, in addition to identifying lessons and values for community participation and planning in the urban environment. It
places this experience in the larger debates on participation. A concluding section will discuss the implications of these findings for planning practice" (Robinson, 2004). Standard Practice
Three hundred years ago, Antoine Cadillac described the land surrounding modern-day Detroit as "so many vast prairies" (McWhirter and Naylor, 2000). Today, Metro Detroit reaches into
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