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Emergent planning

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Emergent planning is a practical planning methodology that recognizes the “weak point” of a city through a two-step collaborative process and offers to tackle it by working simultaneously with various stakeholders representing the different sectors of the city. This article investigates the background for emergent planning, which includes planning approaches such as integrated planning, collaborative planning and ‘complexity’ planning. It then describes the implementation of the emergent planning methodology in the city of Auroville, South India, in a collaborative process that lasted over a year and analyzes its outcomes and the possibilities it offers the future of planning.

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  1. Conatusdesign, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Batel Eshkol & Alon Eshkol

  2. School of Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzlia, Israel

    Batel Eshkol

  3. Tel Aviv, Israel

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Appendices

Appendix 1: A diagram explaining the integrated planning process (Yigitcanlar and Teriman, 2015, p. 348)

Appendix 2: A map of Auroville in Tamil Nadu, India (courtesy of L’avenir d’Auroville)

Appendix 3: Division into 18 sectors under the three types of infrastructures

Appendix 4: Photos from the sectors’ interrelations workshop (photographer: Batel Eshkol)

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Eshkol, B., Eshkol, A. Emergent planning. Urban Des Int 23, 102–115 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41289-018-0054-3

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