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Participatory Planning
Postgraduate | CUR-URP640 | 2018
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Open up the planning process to include community and stakeholder feedback.Unpack the history of participation in different areas of planning. Design your own participation program and oversee a participatory workshop using established techniques.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Participatory Planning
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- explain participation theories with reference to practical case studies
- critically evaluate participatory practices
- design a participation program for a planning case study
- organise a participatory workshop using facilitation techniques.
- Introduction and history of participation in planning
- The institutional context for participatory planning
- Participatory planning and democracy
- Participation typologies
- Participatory planning and difference
- Information, knowledge and change
- Formal and informal participation and power
- Participation techniques
- Skills for participatory planning - negotiation, facilitation, moderation
- Planning a participation program
- Evaluating participation
- Overview
Examines the role of community and stakeholder participation in the planning process and governance of urban and regional places. Critical evaluation of participatory practices and theories.
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- Group workshop (20%)
- Design exercise (40%)
- Essay (20%)
- Portfolio (20%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Access to hardware: webcam, speakers and microphone
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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