Participatory Planning in Urban Outskirts of the Mashhad Metropolitan, through The City Boundary Coordination Project

Although the law doesn’t allow the intervention of the Municipality in villages which are autonomous in Iran, all of the plans and programs, including strategies that implement our initiative in the City Boundary Coordination Project (CBCP) are shaped by participation to bridge the gaps especially in city outskirts. These face to face and discourse are facilitated by the Mashhad municipality zones and parallel organizations through some creativity and innovative ways.

CBCP is a key element in the implementation process of participation planning with an operational, and holistic perspective with emphasis on development and land use planning and systematization of the metropolis in managing fringe areas. Its constitution as an official and facilitator body aims to improve of strategic projects and resources to enhance the provision of public services' in a semi-public office which responsible for intermunicipal development and proposes mechanisms and instruments for rural councils, stakeholders, NGOs and residents that contribute to a socially, economically sustainable, environmentally friendly balanced mechanism.

In addition, CBCD is recognized as a professional, efficient and effective semi organization in fulfilling its responsibilities as the facilitator entity responsible for coordinating the metropolis planning that helps to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants and their opportunities for participation in the area of Mashhad outskirts. 

Its objective is to expand and propose amenities for participatory planning, and some projects implemented and coordinated apart from intervening in autonomy of villages. In this term, policy coordination in the field of its response to the local residents was designed. As would be considered, the process of urban management is the improvement of quality of life  and creating recreational and open spaces in the second largest slum city in Iran. The metropolis area of Mashhad has taken important steps in creating a coordination scheme based on citizenship, direct and indirect coordination, which establishes the characteristics and powers of participation. It is the very basis of the scheme, the result of work of civil society that promoted the existence of the CBCP agenda, the work of the metropolis authorities is based on participatory planning exercises, active public consultation and educational path, which keeps citizens at the epicenter of decision making at the metropolis level.

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