Empowering The Urban Poor Through Participatory Planning Process A Case From Jhenaidah Bangladesh 2nd Edition Dr Mahmuda Alam by Dr. Mahmuda Alam, Mrs. Emerald Upoma Baidya 9780203849132, 0203849132 instant download after payment.

The paper analyses a community development project based in Jhenaidah,
Bangladesh, which evolved through broadening social capital among slum
communities and formal institutions in order to bring positive socio-spatial
changes in the neighborhoods. Till date, nine disadvantaged communities have
formed a network for city-wide community development, have started to build
and manage their own funds, built better houses for themselves, and through
this process have managed to draw attention and support from the local
government. Started by a small group of architects and a local NGO in 2015,
and still broadening its scopes, this project can be regarded as a successful
example of people-led development initiative, especially in a context where most
development projects exercise limited participatory values and are dominated
by unequal power dynamics. Hence issues like scaling up and economic
sustainability still concern those, who can see the community-driven
development process with an unbiased attitude. The overarching goal of this
article is to sketch out these issues with the help of empirical understandings
from the field and theoretical findings from literature on social innovation and
power in planning in order to understand how to work balance between local
and institutional management of projects in order to avoid perceiving bottomup and top-down initiatives in a dualistic manner.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2019), 3(2), 47-54.
https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4700