Innovative approaches to participatory local area planning
- Vol.18, Issue 3
- New Delhi Institute of Town Planners 2021
- 1-14p.
Participatory planning is an urban planning paradigm that emphasizes involving the local community from the very beginning of the strategic and management processes of urban planning; or, community- level planning processes. The Participatory Strategic Planning process is a consensus-building approach that helps a community to join together in explaining how they would like their community or organization to develop over the next few years. The participatory planning method has its roots in the United States, influencing western European countries in the subsequent years. The present process of Planning in India follows a top down approach which does not allow or encourage public participation in all the stages thereby making planning process and the plans themself not in coherence with the needs and aspirations of the local population. The paper spells out an innovative and an effective approach for Participatory Local Area Planning through E-Participation.