While planning urban landscapes, the planners, it is
recommended, need to consult the existing urban population for their inputs.
This view, however, is not endorsed by all saying that planning a city is the
job of the planners and any such consultation will spoil the right planning.
How good or bad is it
to consult the existing urban population before going for any urban planning?
Urban planning takes a lot of efforts and homework. In this
respect, there are two views; one is the planners must take advice from the
current urban population and the other finds this as a spoiler of appropriate planning.
Let me see the how or bad such a consulting is.
It is good in many ways as the current urban population know
very well what type of expansion and facilities are needed for today and the in
the days to come. Since they have been living there for quite some time, and
are in much better position to make wiser suggestions than those planners who
are there just to plan another urban area. For example, every urban landscape
has its own characteristics, geographic conditions and requirements. These are
known more to the people than those who come to plan it in a fine morning. So it
is always good to listen to the voice of the people.
This fact notwithstanding, at times, this consulting is
likely to go hostile to the plans and the visions of the planners. It might
happen in many ways. Selfish and parochial people of the place may come up with
strange suggestions to safeguard their vested interests. For example, people
who are likely lose lands and living may force suggestions that are impractical
and inappropriate for the whole process. Some people may even go for legal intervention
to spoil the plans of the planners.
In short, there may by problems in consulting the people
before going for an urban planning project. However, it is always better to go
for a sit together before the plan implementation than going ahead
unilaterally. The planners may get out of the box ideas from real people.
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