Citizen co management

1. CITIZEN CO-MANAGEMENT
Cases around the Globe

2. CASE 1: ‘MACHIZUKURI’ - COMMUNITY PLANNING
Location: Kobe, Japan
Description: Post the Kobe earthquake of 1995, ‘machizukuri’
was adopted as one of the Japanese urban planning
techniques. This technique involves the communities to
build up their public spaces on their own with the funding
from the government. The inner city neighbourhoods in
wards like Shingata, Noda-Hokobu etc. were built in this way.
This helped the city administrators of Kobe to understand
that while large-scale urban planning is used for
infrastructure projects and comprehensive interventions,
local projects allow for flexibility and rapidity, as well as
responsiveness in areas, overlooked by more comprehensive
plans.
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Source: Toshikeikaku and Machizukuri in Japanese Urban Planning
Community Street in Noda- Hokubu, where
the design of the public space is left to each
neighbour

3. CASE 2: EVERYDAY MAKERS & NEIGHBOURHOOD
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS
Location: The Hague, Netherlands
Description: Neighbourhood development corporations
succeeded in aligning redevelopment plans according to
the resident welfare associations plans. As part of their
neighbourhood development & maintenance, a tennis
park was built on redeveloped land, a derelict primary
school plot was redeveloped to build four residential
apartments and three commercial premises.
Similar examples of the neighbourhood development
yeiled a new set of swimming pools for the community,
neighbourhood park, street sweeping operations, and odd
jobs services for long term maintenance. This is a good
example of how RWAs can influence their ULBs to
promote sustainable change for community betterment.
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Source: The Hague expands on smart city ambition
The Hague, Netherlands

4. CASE 3: PARTICIPATORY NEIGHBOURHOOD
PLANNING
Location: Puducherry, India
Description: This project under Puducherry Smart City
Corporation Limited (PSCCL) aimed at improvisation of
shared community infrastructure by augmenting social
and technological capacity to achieve the goal of a ‘slum-
free’ Puducherry. It focuses on empowerment of
stakeholders through an innovative and integrated
financing mechanism.
For this project, partnership has been developed between
public bodies and related agencies such as PSCCL, Slum
Clearance Board, other government departments; private
sector (YES Bank), researchers and experts skilled in
participative planning and community engagement in
urban areas, from both public and private institutions.
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Source: Project Compendium February,2019
A low income settlement in
Puducherry

5. CASE 4: PARTICIPATORY SERVICE DELIVERY
Location: Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
Description: Altruistic citizens in Ahmednagar,
Maharashtra decided to help during the lockdown as
part of the Covid-19 response. They developed
temporary facilities such as mobile mask
sterilization and production of additional masks for
free distribution, to act as extended arms of the
authorities for speedy service delivery. Later the
temporary facilities, based on their effectiveness
were formally adopted by public authorities.
This is a good example of how public authorities can
emulate good services and examples set by citizens.
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Video Link
Volunteers pictured giving a
demonstration

6. CASE 5: CITIZEN DESIGN SCIENCE: A STRATEGY
FOR CROWD-CREATIVE URBAN DESIGN
Location: ETH Zurich
Description: Using the Qua-kit (a design toolkit) to combine the
opportunity of crowdsourcing opinions and thoughts by citizens through
modern information and communication technology with active design
tools. The active design feedback from a city's inhabitants is identified as
a yet missing but essential way towards a responsive city.
The easy access is a key factor for citizen science studies. Qua-kit offers
the opportunity for designing without any instructions by designers.
Design tasks can be formulated in a way that they can be solved within a
few minutes for participants. Galleries showing design submissions of
other participants allow voting and commenting of proposals and can
lead to users reflecting on their own ideas and preferences. Another
important factor is the good quality of data that is collected with this
tool. The submissions are not photos or real 3D models but geo-data
such that geographic evaluation algorithms can easily be applied without
doing the stage of image recognition. The tool can be applied to bottom-
up interactions, which would mean that citizens decide to build their
preferred design solutions and discuss optionally possible variations.
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Source: Citizen Design Science: A strategy for crowd-creative urban design
Design Process using Qua-kit

7. CASE 6: PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING
Location: Pune, India
Description: Participatory Budgeting was launched in
Pune in 2006 under the then commissioner of Pune
Municipal Corporation. For 76 prabhags in PMC, a total of
Rs. 38 crore was allocated through participatory
budgeting. Pune Municipal Corporation invites
suggestions from citizens at the respective ward offices on
subjects related to roads, electricity, buildings to slum
improvement and water supply and drainage. Suggestions
by the citizens are compiled at the ward office and
submitted to prabhag samiti, which in turn sends the
approved suggestions for accounts scrutiny to produce a
final list of projects to be implemented in PMC region.
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Source: Pune Mahanagarpalika
Participatory Budget: Pune (Title Page)