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Defines participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities.
List of contents
Foreword Introduction Part I: Learning Practice 1. Deciding on Purpose - In Search of Beginnings 2. Learning and Practice - Understanding and Action 3. Learning How to Decide 4. Cross Cutting Themes - Ownership, Organisation and Asset Building Part II: The Spacemaker's Guide to Becoming Strategic 5. Equity, Efficiency and Participation 6. Equity, Efficiency and City Form 7. Participation in Practice Part III: Country Files 8. Cultivating the Top - The Million Houses Programme of Sri Lanka 9. Case Files - Learning from Practice Part IV: Enablement and the Art of Improvisation 10. Embracing Serendipity - Finding Opportunity in Ambiguity 11. 'Yes is More': Getting Unstuck - Working with Troublemakers 12. Insiders out and Outsiders in: Practical Wisdom and the Co-Production of Knowledge
About the author
Nabeel Hamdi is currently Emeritus Professor at Oxford Brookes University. After qualifying at the Architectural Association in 1968, Nabeel worked for the Greater London Council, where his award-winning housing projects established his reputation in participatory design and planning. From 1981 to 1990 he was Associate Professor of Housing at MIT, where he was later awarded a Ford International Career Development Professorship. Nabeel won the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour for his work on Community Action Planning in 1997. He founded the Masters course in Development Practice at Oxford Brookes, which was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2001. Nabeel has consulted on participatory action planning and the upgrading of slums in cities to international development agencies, charities and NGOs worldwide.
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Defines participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities.
