Enhancing urban transformative capacity through children’s participation in planning

Public Participation in Sustainable Urban Planning

Urban planning, in particular on protected landscape areas, demands an increasing role of public participation within the frame of the efficiency of sustainable planning process. The development of urban planning actions in Protected Landscape areas, as Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, should perform a methodological process that is structured over distinct sequential stages, providing the developm...

Chapter 1 Public Participation in Urban Planning

Strategic Planning for Information Resources: Enhancing Managers’ Participation through Ontology-based Modeling

Successful strategic planning for information resources (SPIR) requires active participation of managers-users who are familiar with the cooperative and collaborative nature of the strategic planning processes. Hence, there is a need to provide them with reusable, flexible, agile and adaptable training material in order to enable them instil their knowledge and expertise in the SPIR process and...

Housing the Urban Poor in Nigeria through Community Participation Using Lessons from Nairobi Kenya

Migration of people to urban areas from the rural areas usually comes with its challenges interms of infrastructural requirement and housing to cater for growing population. One of the challenge for the urbandwellers in Nigeria is that of adequate housing. The inability of the government to meet this demand has seen thepeople concerned seeking alternative solutions to housing need. The resultin...

Becoming Urban: Exploring the Transformative Capacity for a Suburban-to-Urban Transition in Australia’s Low-Density Cities

Metropolitan planning and development of Australia’s cities for much of the past 75 years has been strongly influenced by what could be termed the “North American model” of low-density, car-dependent suburban development on greenfield master-planned housing estates. The negative social, economic and environmental consequences associated with perpetuating this low-density greenfield model were b...