1 / 6

Urban Planning

Urban Planning. 1. The Exercise of Power? Or the exercise of Just authority? . Three Approaches to the Just Exercise of Power. Are you among, alongside or for the poor?. Advocacy – a voice to the powerful on behalf of the powerless.

wirt
Download Presentation

Urban Planning

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Urban Planning 1. The Exercise of Power? Or the exercise of Just authority?

  2. Three Approaches to the Just Exercise of Power Are you among, alongside or for the poor? Advocacy – a voice to the powerful on behalf of the powerless. Community Organizing – utilizing the power of the masses vs. the power of the rich-political forces Public Policy & Urban Planning – serving the powerful, but devising just policies that are sensitive and engaged with the poor communities

  3. Community Organizing 1. Have You Chosen to exercise power? 2. Have you chosen to be personally powerless in the exercise of power? The ten steps – Linthicum interpreted Alinsky into Church-based organizing. Exercise of the Power of the People against the Power of the Oppressors Derived from Leftwing activism Urban Planning Why not engage your life in the exercise of Power within Government Urban Planning and prevent the same problems that you are now having to solve?

  4. Exercise: What are Your Sources to PowerCheck the boxes Go back and ask which directions towards having just power you wish to pursue Social Mobility Education Position in an Organization Entering an Organization that has power (Public Policy, Big NGO with wealth) Being part of the leadership of a movement Networks Wealth

  5. Towards a Theology and Praxis of Just Exercise of Power What do I read next in forming my concept of power? Jayakumar Christian. 1999. God of the Empty-handed. MARC: Monrovia, CA. Andy Crouch. 2013. Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power. IVP. Robert Linthicum. 1991. Empowering the Poor. Marc: Monrovia, CA

  6. Dimensions of the Field of Urban Planning I wonder how planners think? Browse the UNHabitat publications site and identify the core issues and themes of the field of Urban Planning.

More Related