Methods to integrate culture, ethics and legal aspects
Urban planning should reflect urban resilience to be grounded in a holistic view of sustainability; and social, economic, political, demographic, and environmental functional components should be considered. To integrate these components citizen participation methods should be integral part respectively common standard of the planning process, already starting at concept level.
Citizen participation methods are useful to identify culture, legal and ethics aspects and to gain an insight in the citizens' perspectives, their needs and requirements. These are important factors in security and resilience enhancing urban planning and in a holistic approach to find according planning and design solutions. Following participation methods, that help planners gaining valuable information on security and risk views, were identified:
- Activating opinion survey
- Advocacy planning
- Citizen jury
- Cooperative discourse
- Dynamic Facilitation
- Experimental participation method
- Focus group
- Future Workshop
- Local open dialogue
- Neosocratic Dialogue
- Participatory Diagnosis
- Planning for Real
- Safety audit
For more detailed assignment see: Determination of security aspects - methods for urban planners.
