What is community (based) design? An introduction to cooperative planning practices.
by and with Roberta Burghardt
As part of the US civil rights movements of the 1960s, planners and designers began to support those affected in their resistance to racist and paternalistic state planning and to develop alternatives with them. This gave rise to the community design movement, which subsequently became institutionalized (Community Design Center) and diversified. Using examples, we want to explore why planning must be partisan, what it means when users become clients of planning and how this influences the methods and understanding of the role of planners.