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Community participation in urban road infrastructure redevelopment: Indian scenario
Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal,
11
(1),
16-29
(2017)
Abstract
Urbanisation is an international phenomenon and intrinsically linked with the development of a country. For successful and sustainable urban redevelopment planning and implementation, participation of the local community needs to be strategically planned, as its members have an existing usage pattern of the infrastructure and surrounding areas and can be categorised as an important group of stakeholders. Urban road projects traverse a larger area and affect diverse and multiple groups in the community. In India, the practice of community participation for urban redevelopment projects is still at a nascent stage. Research discussed in this paper adopts a case study approach to understand the dynamics of effective community participation for road redevelopment projects in an Indian context. The paper discusses global research in this area and adoption of community participation in case studies of two urban road redevelopment projects in India. The findings show that the structure of public consultation and the parameters to be considered are different for urban road projects planned for core urbanised areas and peri-urban areas. After due consideration of these parameters, community participation should be strategically planned and implemented by the promoters of these projects.
Keywords: urban redevelopment; road projects; community participation; stakeholder management; India
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Author's Biography
Vanita Ahuja PhD, PgMP, MRICS is Professor and Programme Director at RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University in Noida, India. She has over 20 years’ industry and academic experience in the area of construction project management. In industry she has worked on projects of varying nature and has extensively conducted training programmes for executives in construction management. In the area of policy making she is part of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) working groups, drafting codes for construction project management. She also actively volunteers for the Project Management Institute (PMI) at national and global level. She has published and presented research papers in international conferences and journals and also volunteers as part of the editorial board and reviewers panel for international journals. She is passionate about spreading knowledge of project management and increasing its practice and would like to contribute to the adoption of projects in the fields of Project Management for Social Sector and Urban Development of Built Environment Sector. These projects touch the lives of people on a day-to-day basis and extensively contribute to increasing the happiness quotient and productivity of the society.
Shalini Priyadarshini is a built environment enthusiast, evidenced by her varied roles of architect, interior designer and construction manager, as well as her doctoral work. Her research interests are construction worker productivity, occupational health and safety in construction,job-site ergonomics, real-time physiological data analysis, construction supply chain management and resource optimisation. She was awarded her Bachelor degree in architecture from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India and her Masters in Construction Management, a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Doctoral Candidacy from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Presently, she is a PhD student at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania USA.
