Forge of empires city planner3/10/2024 ![]() This book highlights some of the strengths of the lesser-known practice of cultural planning to help forge greater understanding and collaboration between the two practices, empowering city planners with new tools to bring about more equitable communities. ![]() Both planning practices have much to learn from one another and already overlap in more ways than most recognize. Cultural planners need to up their game, and enriching their own and city planners’ cultural competencies is only one step. Borrup argues for cultural master plans in parallel to transportation, housing, parks, and other specialized plans, while also changing the approach of city comprehensive planning to put people or "users" first rather than land "uses" as does the dominant practice.Ĭultural plans as currently conceived are not sufficient to help cities keep pace with dizzying impacts of globalization, immigration, and rapidly changing cultural interests. It calls for a paradigm shift, re-positioning city planners’ "base maps" to start with a richer understanding of human cultures. The book turns attention to the anthropological definition of culture, encouraging planners in both urban and cultural planning to focus on characteristics of humanity in all their variety. The Power of Culture in City Planning focuses on human diversity, strengths, needs, and ways of living together in geographic communities.
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