While city planners have not typically sought the insights of children to inform planning practice, this is beginning to change. Planning activities involving children have cropped up across the country. Such initiatives include involving school-aged children in park design, neighborhood issues, and comprehensive planning activities, among others. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has even set its sights on involving young stakeholders in certain planning processes. Specifically, HUD has begun working together with youth who reside in HOPE VI housing in order to discover their needs. After a national conference involving HUD officials and these youth constituents, efforts have been made by HUD to create planning committees made up of the residents of potential HOPE VI sites. HUD's goal has been to create planning committees which are intergenerational in nature. The primary function of these planning committees is to consider those issues arising in their communities and to make recommendations to HUD about how to appropriately respond to such issues. These intergenerational planning committees are the first of their kind. They merit study because it is imperative that we learn how such participation by youth and adults affects levels of empowerment. This study describes and explains the interworkings of an intergenerational planning committee at the McDaniel Glenn public housing community in Atlanta by employing a grounded theory case study approach. The results of this case study reveal that participation by youth and adults in this sort of intergenerational planning process which is spearheaded by an advocacy planner reduces the pre-relocation grief effects typically experienced by those who are displaced by urban renewal activities. The study further reveals the empowering effects that intergenerational participation may have on all planning process participants. These findings fill a void in planning scholarship and have both practical and ethical implications for the use of such planning strategies in practice. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy. / Fall Semester, 2004. / October 25, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references. / Charles Connerly, Professor Directing Dissertation; Isaac W. Eberstein, Outside Committee Member; Ivonne Audirac, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_181964 |
| Contributors | Jourdan, Dawn E. (authoraut), Connerly, Charles (professor directing dissertation), Eberstein, Isaac W. (outside committee member), Audirac, Ivonne (committee member), Department of Urban and Regional Planning (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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