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Abstract
As cities grow and poverty urbanizes, planners need a better understanding of the strengths, limitations, and challenges of using participatory approaches in the development of urban slums. This research summarizes the evolution of community participation and its increased role in urban development and investigates the community-driven development (CDD) approach. CDD can play a powerful role in addressing acute poverty and inequality growing in cities while also contributing to the process of democratization and community empowerment. The study identifies a process which capitalizes on a local community’s assets and potentials to overcome a CDD limitation, namely missing the adaptation of the local context. It uses the place making approach to explore the physical, environmental, social and economic construction of place in this context, in order to deduce the key attributes of urban informal areas. It proposes a preliminary conceptual tool based on literature review and analysis. The study also reviews and analyses community-driven development in urban, unplanned informal settlements through 4 relevant examples and identifies their attributes. Furthermore, exploring the effect of the proposed tool on facilitating the development interventions in each example. Using the acquired data, it theoretically applies it on a local case study: El-Max Fishermen Village in Alexandria, Egypt. After testing the suggested hypothesis, it reviews the findings and recommendations for further research. The findings will be in the form of a set of broad guidelines to local contexts, along with an adaptable conceptual participatory tool targeted to team leaders, national and local government officials who are interested in initiating, expanding, or scaling up projects with a community-driven approach in urban development.