Improving the interface between urban municipalities and aboriginal communities.

Abstract

The ways in which urban municipalities understand and work within the context of Aboriginal community aspirations and needs will affect the quality of future urban development, in physical, social, economic and cultural sectors. Planning is central to shaping the institutional arrangements to help actualise Aboriginal community aspirations. Based on research with academic and practitioner collaborators, municipal officials and Aboriginal community professionals and stakeholders in seven cities, five priority areas were derived to target improvements at the interface between urban municipalities and Aboriginal communities and to help direct further research. The areas are: 1) citizen participation and engagement; 2) governance interface-municipal and Aboriginal; 3) Aboriginal culture as municipal asset; 4) economic and social development; and 5) urban reserves, service agreements and regional relationships. Considerations are discussed under each priority area to help guide strategic thinking as municipalities engage in a transformative future-seeking process with Aboriginal communities.

Key words: municipal; planning; Aboriginal; Indigenous; urban

Resume

La facon dont les municipalites urbaines comprennent et fonctionnent dans le contexte des communautes autochtones, leurs aspirations et leurs besoins vont avoir un effet sur les developpements urbains futurs, sur leurs aspects physiques, sociales, economiques et les secteurs culturels. I1 est essentiel d'avoir un excellent amenagement pour aider et rendre reelle les aspirations communautaires autochtones. Base selon les recherches academiques et leurs collaborateurs, les municipalites et la communaute autochtone professionnelle et leurs partenaires financiers dans sept villes, cinq priorites ont ete identifiees afin d'apporter des ameliorations entre les municipalites urbaines et les communautes autochtones et ainsi aider des recherches futurs anterieures. Les categories sont 1) l'engagement et la participation des citoyens; 2) relations gouvernmentales--municipale et autochtone; 3) la culture autochtone comme atout pour la municipalite; 4) les developpements economiques et sociales, et, 5) les reserves urbaines, l'accord des services & les relations regionales. II y a des discussions en cours sur chaque priorite, en prenant compre de plusieurs differentes considerations, qui aideront a bien guider certaines pensees strategiques a mesure que les municipali...

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