Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on the authors and contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Why is redesign of public policy needed?
- Chapter One Possibilities for policy design
- Chapter Two Conventional policy design
- Chapter Three Co-productive policy design
- Section One Challenges and change within conventional policy design
- Section Two Vision in co-productive policy design
- Section Three Grammar in co-productive policy design
- Chapter Four Debating co-productive policy design
- Chapter Five Governance for co-productive policy designs
- Epilogue Co-producing research
- References
- Index
Establishing principles for value-driven policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on the authors and contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Why is redesign of public policy needed?
- Chapter One Possibilities for policy design
- Chapter Two Conventional policy design
- Chapter Three Co-productive policy design
- Section One Challenges and change within conventional policy design
- Section Two Vision in co-productive policy design
- Section Three Grammar in co-productive policy design
- Chapter Four Debating co-productive policy design
- Chapter Five Governance for co-productive policy designs
- Epilogue Co-producing research
- References
- Index
Summary
This contribution from New Mexico-based planners and researchers – working as part of a broader collective involving students and traditional communities – demonstrates how the explicit statement of principles informs value-driven practice and contributions to policy. Coupled with the intent to make strategic interventions in the policy process, the Resource Center for Raza Planning (RCRP)1 was able not only to influence policy decisions, but to challenge those decisions which may prove problematic for traditional communities and provide a platform and method to propose more inclusive, progressive alternatives. Starting from a position informed by identity and emotional connection to place, the RCRP drew together different forms of expertise: an understanding of the rhythms and dynamics of policy making, technical planning expertise, skills in participatory resources and experiential knowledge. This expertise, guided by clarity of purpose, was then mobilised in order to make successive and sustained interventions in place-shaping.
Over the span of the Resource Center for Raza Planning’s (RCRP) nearly 20-year history, students have worked alongside researchers, professionals and community residents on projects and programmes related to land use and zoning, economic development, the provision of infrastructure, urban design, water quality and availability, transportation, employment, cultural preservation, youth development, agriculture and neighbourhood change. This contribution is a brief description of some of those activities and how a set of values and principles were employed to influence the outcome of planning and policy decisions and their impacts on the shaping of place.
Statements of purpose and principles
A deep-seated love of place and concern for its future was the basis for commitment to the work of Raza Planning. Students understood growth policies as a continuation of historical patterns that exacerbated economic, social and cultural inequalities. They believed that the field of community and regional planning offered a vehicle to both challenge problematic development decisions and propose better alternatives. Thus, RCRP exists to contribute to the efforts towards wise development decisions. Such a statement was a call for engagement and insertion into planning and policy making. This decision to engage was accompanied by a conscious and explicitly stated mission and principles that provided the beacon to guide the purpose and direction for action:
Resource Center for Raza Planning was formed to contribute to the community development efforts of traditional communities in New Mexico.
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