Observers say planners are increasingly being empowered to challenge projects that don't fit the community vision.
Globalization and the Internet made these threats more acute, as technology erased borders and empowered individuals to project great violence, as well as great good.
Otherwise community members should be encouraged to establish community committees and empowered to manage community projects by themselves to promote ownership.
"One of the most important driving forces for individuals is being empowered to take responsibility for projects on an individual or team basis," Boehringer Ingelheim's Schnorrenberg says.
We've also learnt about the intrinsic democratic nature of crowd funding; where audiences are created, cultivated and empowered to not only choose the projects they want to see made, but also to become part of the making process.
The Bond Commission, controlled by Mrs. Rell, is the only body empowered to borrow money for these projects.
Clinical diagnostic laboratories in particular have been empowered to undertake increasingly ambitious sequencing projects, resulting in a greater availability and range of diagnostic tests.
Fourth, project teams are empowered to sense, shape, and seize their own market opportunities.
Detractors from the PAR process include limits in the timeframe of the project that did not allow for relationship building over time, inadequate time and institutional support for teachers to feel empowered in the project, and the climate of high stakes testing in public schools in the US.
First, to enable the communication among persons with and without visual impairments; and, second, to empower students to participate in training projects through open educational procedures.
