Zeewijk Vink, Thomas, van (2022) Blueprint planning in neighbourhood renewal: making participation work. Master thesis.
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Abstract
In the contemporary planning debate, the focus is on participation and planning without plans. Also in practice, the art of making great spatial visions seems to have been lost. Instead, the focus is on communicative, bottomup processes. Blueprints – a strategic spatial vision of an area that shows what could be – are nowadays easily discarded as being not democratic enough or too top-down. The time has come to rediscover blueprints, which are often misunderstood, and further explore ‘participation’ and ‘bottom-up’ vs. ‘top-down’, which are concepts without clear definition. Blueprints have been used for new residential areas before. Nowadays, the biggest challenges in planning lie within existing neighbourhoods. This research explores what the added value can be of making a blueprint in a neighbourhood renewal process. Especially those processes now often rely on participation, which has led to a situation in which no one takes responsibility. This has a risk of long-lasting, repetitive discussions and also raises concerns about the democratic value of the outcomes. Six professionals, active in neighbourhood renewal in Nationaal Programma Rotterdam Zuid or BospolderTussendijken, have been interviewed. It turns out that many professionals would be helped with a blueprint, because it provides clarity to all stakeholders and speeds up the process. Although a blueprint could also propose radical changes to a neighbourhood, this is deemed unwanted, as residents are attached to the way their neighbourhoods look. Blueprints can inspire and give clarity on the general direction, but a lot is still to be discussed in a collaborative way.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Environmental & Infrastructure Planning |
| Supervisor: | Dijk, T. van |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2022 12:50 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2022 12:50 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4036 |
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