Bottom Up stands for a participatory municipal planning process.
From June 2007 until July 2008, IDOM lead the collective construction of the regulatory plans for the 31 municipalities of the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM) in Costa Rica. Of these plans, 19 had to be made from scratch or updated and 12 had to be adjusted according to the new guidelines of the "Plan GAM", elaborated by PRUGAM (a governmental program for the Regional Urban Planning of the GAM which is co-financed by the European Union).
We joined the participatory process for the making and updating of the 19 municipal plans. It consisted of three workshops phases: (1) Territorial assessment of key themes, obstacles and opportunities; (2) Validation of the assessment and selection of alternatives, objectives and goals; (3) Validation and adjustments of the technical content of the preliminary regulatory plans.
In each of the 19 municipalities representatives of the public sector (municipality, governmental institutions), the private sector (real estate, industry and commerce), the communal sector (local organizations and committees) as well as interested inhabitants attended the workshops.
Credit
A Company (Marije van Lidth de Jeude) with IDOM for PRUGAM.
Greater Metropolitan Area, Costa Rica, 2007-2008.