Empowerment & Participation in Sustainable City Ecosystems

The following discussion agenda is on the topic of Empowerment and Participation in the subject of Sustainable City Ecosystems:

1. The notions of Empowerment and Participation
2. Strategies for Empowerment and Participation
• Committing to empowerment and participation
• Empowering people through education and healing circles
• Using different levels of engagement for different urban functions
• Engaging the disempowered
• Developing a resource base for empowerment

Reference

Newman, P. and Jennings, I. (2008) "Chapter 7: Empowerment and Participation", Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems, Island Press