Neighborhood Planning Center

Homeowners and business owners who are engaged in development of their properties face a bewildering

Many people participate in small-scale development at the neighborhood scale, in effect “co-producing” the city. They need neighborhood-scale resources to help them.

Therefore:

Create a series of neighborhood planning centers, one for each walkable neighborhood area (roughly 800 x 800 meters or ½ mile x ½ mile).

When … In order to accomplish neighborhood-scale improvements in Slum Upgrade (p. 162), Sprawl Retrofit (p. 165), Urban Regeneration (p. 168) and Urban Consolidation (p. 171), it is necessary to work closely with residents, who will act as co-developers in almost all cases. An institutional framework is needed...

Then Provide digital resources for the centers, including Design with Augmented Reality (p. 191) tools and Citizen Data (p. 193) tools, including community wikis and other resources tools...