Metropolitics

As NYC (Again) Considers Comprehensive Planning, History Offers Insight

K. C. Alvey — 2019-02-12T06:00:00Z

Comprehensive planning can be a progressive governance tool, helping leaders keep broad principles like equity and resilience in mind as they consider infrastructure systems and neighborhood-level interventions. But as New York City's experience shows, balancing a citywide vision with flexibility and activism at the community scale has proven to be a challenge. Moreover, for some interests, comprehensive public planning—whether community-responsive or not—poses a threat.
In the context of

- Essays / urban planning, New York, history, consultation, community, comprehensive planning, community input

Saving Ivy Island: A Civil War in North Portland

Lauren Everett — 2019-01-15T08:13:58Z

Lauren Everett examines two different approaches by community activists confronting change in a tight-knit Portland neighborhood, and the struggle that ensued. She considers how official decision-making processes may or may not include mechanisms for considering community input, and the challenges of working with a community plan that leaves room for interpretation.
The community plan for the neighborhood of St Johns in the north of Portland, Oregon, prioritizes both neighborhood

- From the Field / participation, public space, United States, neighborhood, consultation, community, Portland (Oregon), neighborhood preservation

The Negotiated Urbanism of Grand Paris Express

Lara Belkind — 2013-06-12T04:55:00Z

In the fragmented context of Paris's metropolitan and regional politics, the Grand Pari(s) design consultation and subsequent public process demonstrate that the Grand Paris Express project, a major new orbital metro line, can become a form of emergent governance and negotiated planning.
Although the Grand Pari(s) design consultation can be interpreted as a strategy through which the state regained control of the metropolitan narrative, this does not signal a return to the centralized

- Debates / banlieue, Île-de-France, Grand Paris, participation, public transportation, Paris region, urban planning, governance, Paris, local governance, transport, metropolis, Greater Paris, consultation, negotiation, mass transit

Renovation and consultation: Parisian approaches to redeveloping public spaces

Bruno Gouyette & translated by Oliver Waine — 2013-02-06T08:59:41Z

When renovating its public spaces, how does the city of Paris implement consultation processes required by French law and requested by certain residents? Bruno Gouyette, an urban planner who has worked for the city council, considers two recent projects – Place de la République and Boulevard Diderot – in order to show how the city's technical departments and councillors have found new ways to redevelop urban spaces.
Bertrand Delanoë's first term as mayor of Paris (2001–08) was marked by the

- From the Field / participation, public space, urban planning, Paris, mobility, consultation, redevelopment, renovation