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60. The foregoing is a simplified version of a critical path method.
In actual practice, the critical path is likely to be more complex than
this, although the same general steps are followed. The Queensgate II
Town Center was designed using the critical path method. To date over
1 000 citizens and officials have participated in the work of its Task
Forces and sub-committees. Although the process has been complex it has
not proved to be unwieldy.
Planning Games
61. "Games are an intriguing and successful method of accelerating the
planning process. They are designed to get citizens and officials together
to address the issues of co-ordination and "clusters" of programs
in a concentrated period of time and in an orderly manner.
62.. Although the number of people who can play the planning "Games" is
theoretically unlimited, practice shows that 60-100 people per session is
a manageable number. If the number of people attending a Public Forum
is larger than 100 it may be necessary to have two or three sessions of
planning "Games". These sessions can be held simultaneously in different
rooms, or sequentially. Four technical staff are needed, per session, to
administer the Games" and ensure smooth running.
63. On the Critical Path, the best place for "Games" to be played is at
the first Public Forum. Like the Critical Path, the "Games" should be
designed by the technical staff and the Steering Committee to address the
specific, issues of the program as they see it.
64. The "Games" should be played anonymously. In other words, the basic
idea is to give every participant in the Public Forum an opportunity to
express his perceptions on all the subjects of the "Games", rather than
simply on those for which he feels he is qualified. In other words, it
defeats the purpose of the "Games", and the insights and wide-ranging discussions
which result from them, if the "specialists" take over from the
non-specialists. In the "Games", everyone, officials and non-officials
alike, should simply be citizens.
65. The timetable for the "Games" will of course vary according to their
design. The following is a prototype series of planning games. They .
are based on the "Games" used for the design of the Neighborhood Center at
Gananda, New York.(l) The length of time recommended for each game follows
the description.
1) David Lewis and Raymond L. Gindroz, op.cit.
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