Aesthetics of urban space through collaborative urban planning:integrating environmental aesthetics with communicative theory of planning

Abstract

The collaborative urban planning has the potentials to make cities more aesthetically pleasing to the dweller.in this paper,we focus on the strengths of the said theory to bring in the viwws of the user to the designing process of the urban space.our current research interest int he collaborative planning is also based on its abillity to formulate a wider basis for evaluation,development and conservation of the city and its life.we intend to argue that aesthetics,within the current consciousness,is not what is meant by bearty but what makes the mand familiar within his dwelling splace. Aesthetic therories hellp understanding the perception,appreciation or experiencing of the slpace in everyda;y life.By developing useful tools to discuss the values of urban space,the contemporary developments in the environmental aesthetics,especially within phenomenological and pragmatist philosolphy,could make the communicative planning therory more context-oriented.The current conception of planning as a decision making process that has little to do with humanistic perspective ofthe city is to be challenged and provided with alternatives here.This decision-making deals with many pracitical demands,but its conventional attitude has cost the city life.The communicative theory and collaborative planning as a practice,strengthen inhabitant's relations to the urban space and as such,could create a new as well as manage the existing without losings its links with the users,once reinforced with phenomenological and pragmatist ideaas developed in the environmental aesthetic theories,this new practice could strengthen the urban space to lpromote dwelling