WELTSTADT

The 10th and final issue of the Weltstadt Newspaper series deals with the Weltstadt project Nextbangalore.

Today, the city is still discussed and negotiated from the perspective of the “experts”. Participation often only happens as a confirmation of already established facts; participation in the decision making-process is only rarely possible. The newspapers theme Crowdsourcing the City asks: what is the city beyond experts, the city of inhabitants, the city of urban amateurs?
An interesting question – especially for Indian urban research. Nextbangalore proposes the thesis that it is those urban protagonists who could provide knowledge and alternative strategies – a knowledge of collaboration – that could create a radical, alternative future of the city. Nextbangalore is thus a research experiment in the creation of an alternative reference system of the Indian city. To reach that goal it is necessary to expose the specific influences on Indian urban development, to “demystify” materials, plans, designs and strategies and to make the “other” Indian city observable through new lines of development. This entails prioritizing the neighborhood scale – an “inbetween” scale – in planning.

For more information on Nextbangalore, please visit www.nextbangalore.com



The newspaper is available in English.


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