Surveying the new Transition radial road.
Sauro has been part of L’Avenir
d’Auroville, Auroville's town planning group, since it was set up
in 2007. Here he answers questions on a wide range of planning
topics.
Auroville Today: One of the
things that L’Avenir is most often criticized for is that its
approach to town planning is top-down. In other words, that it
doesn’t involve the community enough in the planning process. How
do you respond to this?
Sauro: I agree it is a problem.
But the apparent top-down approach is partly the consequence of lack
of human resources. At present, only four Aurovilians are trained
town planners (only two of whom are working with us at present) and
to plan the city normally requires the involvement of many
professionals. But in L’Avenir three coordinators have resigned,
and our fundraiser doesn’t attend meetings. So we are looking for a
minimum of three coordinators for town planning, communication and
administration, plus support staff. Act...
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