Simplest Way to Reach the Most Complicated Goal: “In the Urban Planning, Questions Are Ours and Answers Are the Natives's”
Publication: Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 136, Issue 2
Abstract
This study began by raising the question of whether new urbanization could modify social relationships in traditional contexts and makes it accepting the cultural growth along with any urban development or, just can threaten the local values and local heritage. To solve the problems posed by globalization and new urban planning, here we try to suggest one solution: public participation or democracy in urban planning; but this time under new definitions. “To be [global] is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world—and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, and everything we are. [Global] environments and experiences cut across all boundaries of geography and ethnicity, of class and nationality, of religion and ideology: in this sense, [globalization] can be said to unite all mankind. But it is a paradoxical unity, a unity of disunity. To be [global] is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, ‘all that is solid melts into air.’” This is the problem of our era: To melt in what means the entire world, under the pressing of global power. How we can remain ourselves while melting in and joining to the global society.
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Acknowledgments
Many people have helped us develop the ideas presented here. We would particularly like to thank all of them; especially the nice people of Loft Port. We are also grateful to Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Alavi, for his helpful comments on the earlier draft. This study is dedicated to the memory of all people who risk their life for “National and International Democracy.”
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Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 136 • Issue 2 • June 2010
Pages: 154 - 161
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Received: Jun 11, 2007
Accepted: Mar 14, 2008
Published online: May 14, 2010
Published in print: Jun 2010
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