Friday, March 5, 2021

Evolution of Master Planning


Urban Planning is the incubation of all forms of built environment and evolution. Therefore; collaboration between the urban parameters and the operational strategies is critical to avoid redo or failed outcomes. Unfortunately, many cities choose the hard track.

What many people do not know; that Urban Planning is a purely democratic process. It is the concern of all the people; who are living in that City. It is their feeling, concepts and futuristic visions. It is their right to determine the way to live. It is not what the anti-democratic bureaucratic City Managers advocate; that they solely know better how the people should live. The more democratic Urban Planning is, the more livable our cities are, the more humane we are.

The actual dilemma is not the rapid and massive urbanization of the world, but typical mindset to make cities larger and wealthier. Only Japan, Scandinavia and North America have successfully transformed both functionality and likeliness of towns to be successful urban centers. However; Wealth may destruct more than Poverty. It misleads, accelerates and confuses the rational growth of knowledge. This is the dilemma of wealthy underdeveloped countries.


Architecture by definition is a product of wealth and urbanism, whereas people have resources to fund, distinct and immortalized their own values, yet have the community codes on behavior, functionality, and engagements to manage living necessities. Therefore, the architectural products of wealthy cities are not necessary to be a reflection of Civilization (as accumulation of epistemic and philosophical development), but as expression of state wealth and imported structures of management. There is no shame to admit such paradox, unless the urban management agencies failed to plan and develop social and intellectual changes to synchronize the architectural one.

Metropolitanism had developed to be one of the tools for Practical Democracy. Today; people have their own say in Master Planning, City Management and Sovereignty of their own communities. Mankind in a way is back to the era of City-States, where people can easily maintain their concerns and interests, apart from complexes of Federal Bureaucracy, Corruption and Politics. It is widely appealing and it is growing fast.
































 

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