Essay utopia or revolution new stakes in sustainable urban planning 2014

6 also because it could mean that finally they will ‘’ know nothing about everything’’. Moreover urban planners have to take in account the stakeholders of the city: inhabitants and politicians.

These two parameters are even more important because they will impact the achievement of the project – economically and socially …

In the middle of all these stakeholders and specialists it can be asked what the role of urban planners themselves is. Thus it would be important to situate them as the main character of urban planning: they have to make a project. Urban planners have to decide from A to Z how the project has to be, as a planner and not only as historians or ecologists, or inhabitant … but as someone who has to create sustainable cities. Their part is even more important that they have to give with plan a coherence in whole city development.

Coherence of urban planning

To make a planning more sustainable urban planners have to understand well the stakes of cities, in this aim they can consult specialists or stakeholders … but the real work of urban planners is to be able to decide what is going to be the more important stake, and which are going to be secondary. In this purpose planners has many possibility to do it, they might want to decide alone, but they can also decide to organize participative planning. It means to involve those different specialists in the planning. This can take many shapes, workshops, discussion, surveys...These participative planning implies that at a moment in the progress of project urban planners want to involve some stakeholders in decision. It can be done at the beginning or almost at the end of the process; it can involve everyone or only technicians and inhabitant or only specialists…

The aim is to find solution with stakeholders for stakeholders. According to Lucien Kroll ”It is not a letting do, the whatsoever. It urges the project further.” Towards “a complexity that comes from a way to consider inhabitant not as goods, but as a network infinitely precious of relations, of actions, of behaviors, of empathies that create slowly an urban fabric”1. Another benefit of these participative planning is that people, as they understand what is going on, are going to be more concerned by the project and will provide to it more sustainability.

Communication on urban planning

Sustainability of a project can be made with involvement of inhabitant. As we said it can be made in different phases of the progress of project but also with different tools. As in Siikajoki in Finland discussion were made around plan… Lucien Kroll, Belgian architect is well known for his participative conception of architecture; he was used to make models with 1. http://next.liberation.fr/design/2013/10/11/les-kroll-une-utopie-habitee_938902