URC604_SP14

Urban Planning with Resident Participation
Prof. Cuz Potter
Urban Regeneration Program
Korea University
Spring 2014

1 Introduction

The engineering origins of urban planning have led the field to focus on top-down, expert-driven solutions to urban problems. This approach, however, is not only anti-democratic but also inefficient. Ground-level citizen participation has proven its ability to provide innovative design solutions, to supply information inaccessible to self-identified experts, and oftentimes to reduce project implementation time. As Korean planners are beginning to reconsider their role in urban development, this course examines the development of planning approaches in the US, where citizen participation has become more central. While the class will focus primarily on the development of the concepts underlying planning, it will also draw on concrete case studies to examine these theoretical approaches.

2 Objectives

By the end of this course, students will be knowledgeable on:

1. The history and roots of communicative planning in the United States.
2. The strengths and weaknesses of theories underlying calls for increased citizen participation in planning.
3. A selection of practical techniques for increasing citizen participation and resolving conflicts among stakeholders.

3 Course Requirements

• A one-page Reaction Paper (RP) is due electronically (http://www.cuzproduces.com) by 9am THURSDAY morning each week for 7 out of the 11 weeks for which there are readings. This allows you to choose which weeks to write a reflection paper. The papers will not be graded with a letter grade, but will be allocated from zero to three points depending on how actively your paper engages the material. The paper should usually be 350–500 words (about one page single-spaced). These brief papers are intended to facilitate class discussion in seminar. You can use the Reaction Paper (RP) to ask for clarification about any aspect of the readings you did not fully understand and/or to express an opinion about one or more of the readings. In general, I would advise you to focus the RP on only one of the readings assigned for each week. RPs should be clearly written, spell-checked, stylistically polished, and grammatically correct.
• Class attendance is not mandatory. However, you should expect to have your opinions solicited if you do not offer them freely…and nobody enjoys that. Also, some portion of the final paper grade will be based on how well you integrate the class readings and discussions, so you will need to attend class to do so effectively.
• An individual research paper written in English will be required. You are free to choose to write either on the history of citizen participation in planning in your country or on the details of a specific case. The paper must draw explicitly on the assigned readings and class discussions. The paper must be 2,500–3,500 words long (not including cover pages and bibliographies). Note that the paper is due at the beginning of class on December 1. Late papers will lose ten points (one letter grade) per day.
• You will also make a twenty-minute presentation based on your paper to the class. The presentation grade will be based on content, clarity, and organization.
• There will no examinations.

4 Grading

5 Plagiarism

Plagiarism is unacceptable. If plagiarism is detected, you will receive a zero for the given assignment. Please note that plagiarism is much broader than many students realize. You are encouraged to look at the excellent descriptions of plagiarism from Indiana University (http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml), Harvard University (http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page342054), and the University of Wisconsin (http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QuotingSources.html), and you will be held to their standards.

6 Required texts

Readings for this course will be available at 공문화사 and the class website (https://www.cuzproduces.com/drupal/content/urc604sp14).

7 Schedule of Topics and Reading

Module 1: Survey of planning theory

Week 1 (March 6): Introduction

Week 2 (March 13): Concepts

1. John Friedmann. Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1987, introduction and chapter 1.

Week 3 (March 20): Traditions

1. John Friedmann. Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1987, chapter 2.

Week 4 (March 27): Rational planning

1. R. G. Tugwell and E. C. Banfield. The planning function reappraised. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, pages 46–49, 1951.
2. Martin Meyerson and Edward C. Banfield. Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest: The Case of Public Housing in Chicago. The Free Press, New York, 1955, pp. 303–329.

Week 5 (April 3): Ladder of participation and equity planning

1. Sherry R. Arnstein. A ladder of citizen participation. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35(4):216–224, 1969.
2. Norman Krumholz. A retrospective view of equity planning: Cleveland 1969-1979. Journal of the American Planning Association, 48(2):163–174, 1982.

Week 6 (April 10): Advocacy Planning

1. Paul Davidoff. Advocacy and pluralism in planning. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 31(4):331–338, 1965.
2. Herbert J. Gans. Planning for people, not buildings. Environment and Planning A, 1(1):33–46, 1969.

Module 2: Power and communication

Week 7 (April 17): Power

1. Steven Lukes, editor. Power. Readings in Social and Political Theory. New York University Press, New York, 1986, chapters 2, 4, and 5.

Week 8 (April 24): No class.

Week 9 (May 1): Introduction to communicative planning

1. Patsy Healey. Planning through debate: the communicative turn in planning theory. Town Planning Review, 63(2):143–162, 1992.
2. Judith E. Innes. Planning theory’s emerging paradigm: Communicative action and interactive practice. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 14(3):183–189, 1995.

Week 10 (May 8): Collaborative planning I

1. Patsy Healey. Collaborative planning: shaping places in fragmented societies. UBC Press, Vancouver, 1997, chapters 7 and 8.

Week 11 (May 15): Collaborative planning II

1. Patsy Healey. Collaborative planning: shaping places in fragmented societies. UBC Press, Vancouver, 1997, chapters 8 and 9.

Week 12 (May 22): Practical approaches to overcoming value differences

1. John Forester. Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes. Oxford University Press, New York, 2009, chapters 6 and 7.

Week 13 (May 29): Critique of collaborative planning

1. Iris Marion Young. Activist challenges to deliberative democracy. Political Theory, 29(5):670–690, 2001.
2. Mark Purcell. Resisting neoliberalization: Communicative planning or counter-hegemonic movements? Planning Theory, 8(2):140–165, 2009.
3. Neil Evans. Machi-zukuri as a new paradigm in Japanese urban planning: reality or myth? Japan Forum, 14(3):443–464, 2010.

Week 14 (June 5): Class presentations. Final paper due before class.

Week 15 (June 13): Class presentations

Week 16 (June 20): Class presentations if necessary