In just four years, PlaNYC has proved itself a remarkably valuable planning tool for New Yorkers, with unprecedentedly broad reach. In accessible language, it presents a unifying vision linking ...

Moving away from top-down approaches, contemporary practices embrace more inclusive and participatory models and design processes. Participatory planning, a notion that prioritizes involving the ...

The Un-Habitat or the United Nations agency for human settlements and sustainable urban development, whose primary focus is to deal with the challenges of rapid urbanization, has been developing ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 39, No. 2 (May 2019), pp. D1-D13 (13 pages) Glacial mountain environments are changing rapidly as a result of climate change and the expansion of nature-based ...

Child-friendly cities prioritize safe environments, healthcare, education, green spaces, and children's participation in decision-making processes. However, children are consulted only for ideas and ...

There is great potential to take a bottom-up approach to development planning in the drylands that includes the knowledge, input, and support of dryland communities. To date, pastoralists have had ...

a) What is a Participatory Assessment? A Participatory Assessment is a process of building partnerships with refugee women and men of all ages and backgrounds by promoting meaningful participation ...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defined child-friendly cities as those that prioritize children’s access to safe environments, healthcare, education, green spaces, and the ...