Collaborative
Community Design
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When
I moved to Kansas City, in 1971
[link],
one of the first things I noticed that it had a long
corridor that potentially tied together a number
of hot spots in the city. I developed
a Master Plan called the Kansas City Strip which
would have integrated all of these areas into a several
mile long
pedestrian mall. My proposal was that this be developed
as a World Fair site and the genesis of a new kind
of urban center. The
idea was published in Renascence Reports several
years later but the idea never caught on [link].
It has remained, however, a corner stone concept of how
Management Centers, NavCenters
[link],
and KnOwhere Stores, should interact with their local
community
[link].
In fact, it is for projects
[link] like
the Master Planning Process, that
I was motivated to participate in their building in the
first place. |
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It
can be said that, just as the 10
Step Model process [link] is
a cornerstone of any NavCenter and full application
of the Taylor
Methods,
so is
the Master Planning Process - in
two key ways: First, it roots the facility in
a community; second, the underlying process is central
to a variety of necessary methods and means
for the development of any NavCenter ValueWeb
[link].
Until now, this basic process has never been
fully described -
except
on
the most
superficial
level
- nor, has
it been possible to do. The KSC
Space Port [link], was the first
project in which we proposed to employ
the process as an intrinsic aspect from the beginning.
This project, however, stalled before it left the
ground. |
Without
mature Taylor facilities (environments,
processes and tools), the CyberCon Tool Kit, the
10 Step Process, PatchWorks [link] and KnetWeb, it is not possible to sustain a Master
Planning
effort nor
scale it when it is successful. |
The CONCEPT of the Master Plan has been
described in the following way: |
The
community Master Plan is housed in
a resource center that is run on a
neutral, non political basis - a place
that can be trusted by all members
of the community.
The
plan is kept in a large room that has
two large walls across from one another.
These walls are oriented and sized
so that they can hold a plan view of
the area (region, city, town, etc.)
in focus. The orientation is such that
the plans are the same, North/South,
East/West as the real estate and sized
so that each lot and building can be
clearly seen by its owner and
user.
On
one wall, the area is illustrated as
is. On the opposite wall as it
could be. The facility has archives,
meeting rooms, and so on and is staffed
for facilitation, mediation, communication
and planning/design.
The
facility offers a neutral space where
individuals, community groups, corporations
and governments can come together to
optimize their work related to evolving
the area over an extended period of
time. When something is built, both
the as is and the future versions of
the Master Plan are revised to reflect
the next best play in the game.
The
idea is that, over time, individuals
will trust the environment, invest
their information and time, learn the
larger system and start designing and
building in a way that integrates short
and long term, individual and community
intersts - individual wealth and commonwealth.
A
cybernetic system becomes the feedback
process: project to whole, whole to
project.
Each
local community Center and plan can
be linked to regional Centers and a
global center so that information can
flow through several levels of recursion
providing context for all. |
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This
concept has remained undeveloped and untested for
nearly 30 years. There has been several reasons for
this. The tools have not existed. The necessary credible
social base and the network required has not existed
for us to implement the process. The needs as perceived
by
the community
have not reached the critical level to motivate people
to act. The Taylor System and Method - necessary
to organize and sustain the effort - has not been in
place. We are now at the threshold time
when all of the conditions are about to flip. |
The
Palo Alto KnOwhere Store [link] is
located in a community approaching crisis. It is
not that the
Palo Alto
community knows that this is so. What the
community is experiencing is an every increasing
level of debate about future development and a
gradual breakdown in trust among the major constituencies
involved. This is an unfortunate situation but
an opportunity for the KnOwhere Store to introduce
the Master Planning Process concept. This, of course,
has to be done carefully. These are politically
charged waters. Strong economic interests are involved. Design is
not now seen as the major issue - it is being treated
as a decision dispute: should Stanford expand its
campus; should old houses be torn down and replaced
by monster residences; should local
owner-operated stores be forced out by high rents?
Should stores in certain areas be community-serving?
What was the area like 50 years ago (I remember
it) and what will it be like in 50 years (is there
a model [link]?). There are no answers in
these either/or question sets. |
July,
2005 Note:
The
Palo Alto knOwhere store was closed [link] before
the Master plan concept could be implimented. |
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Matt
Taylor
Palo Alto
August 20, 2000
SolutionBox
voice of this document:
INSIGHT POLICY PROGRAM
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posted:
August 20, 2000
revised:
July 25, 2005
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Copyright© Matt
Taylor 1976, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005
Aspects
of the work shown and described are patented and patent
Pending by iterations |
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