College - Author 1
College of Architecture and Environmental Design
Department - Author 1
City and Regional Planning Department
Degree Name - Author 1
BS in City and Regional Planning
Date
7-2024
Primary Advisor
Kelly Main, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, City and Regional Planning Department
Abstract/Summary
Citizen planners are direct representatives of their communities, “often working without formal position, a title, or support from the state” (Beard, 2012, p. 708). The purpose of this project is to enrich the existing literature of planning history, by including stories of citizen planners. And acknowledging them as key actors in building equitable communities. This project asserts the importance of local knowledge and citizen empowerment when it comes to successfully developing community.
This project follows the story of two Filipino citizen planner organizations. One is in Stockton, named Little Manila Rising (LMR) which is located in South Downtown Stockton. The other Filipino citizen planning organization is in San Francisco, named the South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN). SOMCAN is located in the South of Market District of San Francisco. This project follows how LMR and SOMCAN utilize community-based planning and radical planning techniques to challenge spatial marginalization in their cities. And how they've expanded their grassroots efforts to provide community services and reclaim space by planning to shape their urban environment. This project also divulges into two community-based urban plans developed through the partnership of citizen and city planners: Stockton’s “Gleason Commercial Master Development Area Proposal” (2003) and San Francisco’s ” Cultural History Housing & Economic Sustainability Strategy Report” (2022) for the “SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Cultural Heritage District.
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/crpsp/291