A value-based methodology for urban and social development in the city of Rotterdam.
The Just City Index aims at creating a process for collective action, as an alternative approach to urban and social development. It uses a value-based planning methodology that provides different interest groups a common toolbox to help negotiate differences and develop a joint manifesto that can lead to the creation of a ‘just’ city. The Just City Index has been developed over the last five years as a result of research and crowd sourced input on the values communities’ desire in their cities and neighborhoods to combat conditions of injustice. The hypothesis of this approach is that unlike economic driven growth, a value-based model can withstand political and market pressures. It uses twelve principles and fifty values as indicators to help communities find common and shared goals for future development. The methodology described in this booklet uses four exercises – reflect, mapping justice/inju
