Visualization Tools and Methods for Participatory Planning and Design

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kheir Al-Kodmany
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Tools And Methods

scholarly journals Participation as Capacity-Building for Active Citizenship

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Chawla
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The Capability Approach

Within the framework of the “capability approach” to human rights, this paper argues that adults who facilitate participatory planning and design with children and youth have an ethical obligation to foster young people’s capacities for active democratic citizenship. Practitioners often worry, justifiably, that if young people fail to see their ideas realized, they may become disillusioned and alienated from political life. Based on the experience of the Growing Up in Cities program of UNESCO, four rules of good practice are distilled which can help promote young people’s belief in the value of collective action, regardless of the challenges that the full implementation of their ideas may face.

Visualizing Information

2012 ◽  
pp. 305-322
Author(s):  
Ann-Margaret Esnard
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information Visualization ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Tools And Methods

This article focuses on the state of knowledge about information-visualization tools, urban-planning applications, and theoretical constructs and dilemmas. It argues that simply adding information-visualization tools and methods to a planner's toolbox does not guarantee that new questions will be raised or new insights will be developed, or that use of visual information will lead to appropriate and inclusive planning processes and actions. The article explains that the emergence of mixed methodologies, which can help address some concerns about the representational flexibility of geographic information systems (GIS) and other visualization tools, has also brought implicit dilemmas for visualization scholars and practitioners. These include social cognition, and the confrontation between expert knowledge and lay knowledge.

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