Real Story #5: Plan It Calgary: A Mature Integration Model for Community Design in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Author: Jackie Teed and Elisa Campbell
Date: 2012
Abstract: In 2005, more than 18,000 citizens participated in the imagineCALGARY project to identify community aspirations for framing the development of the Plan for Long-Range Urban Sustainability (Long-Range Plan). The project goal was to integrate land use and transportation planning to generate revised Municipal Development (MDP) and Calgary Transportation (CTP) plans that sustainably accommodate 2.5 million people and 1.3 million jobs within the city by 2075. The Design Centre developed and implemented a unique project process, including three types of decision-support tools to integrate community indicators and performance measures: framing tools that logically organize community intentions and explicitly link these intentions to design choices; informing tools that educate decision-makers about issues relative to design decisions; and modeling tools that reveal anticipated performance of alternatives against indicators. The Design Centre team applied these tools in an iterative series of collaborative, stakeholder workshops and design charrettes hosted by the city, which engaged participants in creating and evaluating alternative scenarios formed in response to the indicators and performance metrics. The result was a set of alternative future development scenarios for Calgary at both the whole-city scale and neighborhood scale. City staff used these strategies and actions as inputs to develop the final MDP and CTP, which were approved by city council in September 2009.
Tags: CI-PM Integration, Government, Sustainability, Urban planning,
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Date: 2012
Abstract: In 2005, more than 18,000 citizens participated in the imagineCALGARY project to identify community aspirations for framing the development of the Plan for Long-Range Urban Sustainability (Long-Range Plan). The project goal was to integrate land use and transportation planning to generate revised Municipal Development (MDP) and Calgary Transportation (CTP) plans that sustainably accommodate 2.5 million people and 1.3 million jobs within the city by 2075. The Design Centre developed and implemented a unique project process, including three types of decision-support tools to integrate community indicators and performance measures: framing tools that logically organize community intentions and explicitly link these intentions to design choices; informing tools that educate decision-makers about issues relative to design decisions; and modeling tools that reveal anticipated performance of alternatives against indicators. The Design Centre team applied these tools in an iterative series of collaborative, stakeholder workshops and design charrettes hosted by the city, which engaged participants in creating and evaluating alternative scenarios formed in response to the indicators and performance metrics. The result was a set of alternative future development scenarios for Calgary at both the whole-city scale and neighborhood scale. City staff used these strategies and actions as inputs to develop the final MDP and CTP, which were approved by city council in September 2009.
Tags: CI-PM Integration, Government, Sustainability, Urban planning,
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