PLAN300 Lecture 6: PLAN 300 – Week 06
9 Dec 2017
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Denver, colorado: ~700,000 population in mile-high city , 78% have walking access to park space, all major professional sports leagues, legalized marijuana in 2012, thriving brewery industry. Advocacy planning: bringing social justice into planning, 1960s, urban renewal failures, social and civil rights movements, places for people, jane jacobs, paul davidoff. Two key findings: uk studies of process and outcome in two british cities, dennis (1972) sunderland, davies (1972) newcastle, shortcomings of technical approach, misuse of rationality, failure to plan for public interest. What does this case demonstrate: technical approaches ignore importance of politics. Other catalysts for advocacy planning: jane jacobs" the life and death (1961, failure of modernist planning approach to plan good places for people, paul davidoff"s advocacy planning (1965, arnstein"s ladder of public participation (1969) in japa. Planners as advocates: like at a legal trial, planners should defend their plans by considering and debating alternate plans, alternate plans created by publics, council decides on best plans.
