title: The Community Planning Handbook: How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World (Earthscan Tools for Community Planning)
author:  Nick Wates 
description: <strong>Congratulations on a brilliant piece of collaborative work. I am in awe!</strong> <i>Wendy Sarkissian, Australia</i><b> </b>
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                                                                                                     Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs 
   
                                                                                                          2019, Volume 3, Number 2, pages 47– 54 
   
  Empowering the Urban Poor through Participatory Planning 
  Process: A Case from Jhenaidah, Bangladesh 
  * 1 Dr. MAHMUDA ALAM, 2 Mrs. EMERALD UPOMA BAIDYA 
   
  1 & 2 Community architect, Platform of Community Action and Architecture, Bangladesh 
  Email: aritra.ahmed@gmail.com   Email: emerald.upoma@gmail.com  
    
   
   
  A B S T R A C T 
    
   The paper analyses a community development project based in Jhenaidah, 
  Bangladesh, which evolved through broadening social capital among slum 
  communities and formal institutions in order to bring positive socio-spatial 
  changes in the neighborhoods. Till date, nine disadvantaged communities have 
  formed a network for city-wide community development, have started to build 