Design of Planning Methodology for Sustainable Urban Development

The study focuses on designing the planning methodology for the crafting of the 30-Year Sustainable Urban Development Plan for Naga City which will serve as a guide for its continuing progress in the years to come. The study aimed to determine the outputs generated by the Design Thinking Workshops; determine the outputs generated by the Expert Group Consultation Workshop; determine the outputs generated by the Detailing Workshop; determine the outputs generated by the Visualization Workshop; describe the outputs generated by the Writeshop; and determine the planning methodology developed; This study was made as a qualitative research under which a set of systematic inductive methods where undertaken to develop the proposed planning methodology. It involved five workshop stages and focus group discussions. The iterative process was made until the basic output has been reached and thatno additional stage would be necessary. A five step planning methodology was developed which started
with a series of Design Thinking workshops which determined the needs, developed ideas and provided
solutions, Expert Group Consultation workshop, Detailing workshop, Visualization workshop and Write shop. In the evaluations conducted after each workshop it was found out that the outputs needed fine-
tuning thus was the main consideration in designing the succeeding workshops until the desired output was achieved: the 30-year Sustainable Urban Development Plan for Naga City. The methodology developed adopts the principles of participatory planning which the city highly promotes in eliciting strong acceptance of the SUDP from its population.

Keywords – Design Thinking Workshop, participatory planning, 30-Year sustainable urban development plan (SUDP), urbanization