A Collaborative Approach to Planning Through Urban Activities

Abstract Urban activities surveys are workable bases for continuing planner-citizen dialogues. Seeking both to inform and to involve citizens, these exchanges also provide the planner with an avenue of collaboration with his client community. Findings from the surveys may be maintained in an activities base, which includes both quantitative and qualitative data on activities. Policy and planning decisions benefit from activities base data on the concerns and potentials of subcommunities. A pilot study of household activities demonstrates the usefulness and feasibility of the collaborative approach. This approach seems particularly appropriate in light of the wider definition of the planning realm now being recognized.