Community Planning

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This key planning textbook on shaping integrated and sustainable communities offers clear outlines of practicable planning methods and will help develop essential skills for planners. The current strong movement towards higher standards of urban life and the challenges of rapid change are not solely about detailed design or matters of style but rather a pursuit of healthier, safer, and more sociable and responsive urban areas. In Community Planning: Integrating social and physical environments, the author examines the impacts of social and economic change on community life and organisation and explores ways in which these changes can be planned and managed. Community planning is presented as a means to balance and integrate beneficial change with the maintenance of valued cultural traditions and lifestyles. The aims and roles of community planning are explored and the key planning operations are explained, including the phases and applications of community planning method, the planning and location of community facilities, the roles of design in shaping responsive community spaces, and the capacity of different types of community governance to improve the relations between citizens and societies. The book is organised into three main sections: the first four chapters establish the interests and scope of community planning. The next five move from accounts of values, methods and analytical techniques to their application in the planning of the key activities of housing, health, education and work. In the third section of the book, the concluding three chapters draw together the preceding themes and demonstrate the integrity of the community planning process in the participatory shaping and governance of healthy and sociable places, and their prospects within the continued evolution of community planning.
This key planning textbook on designing healthy and sustainable communities informs planners about community life and the processes of planning and equips them with the essential knowledge and skills they need to organise change and improve the quality of urban living. The author examines the impacts of social and economic change on community life and organization and explores ways in which these changes can be planned and managed. Community planning is presented as a means to balance and integrate beneficial change with the maintenance of valued cultural traditions and life styles. This involves bringing together fields of study and practice including urban and regional planning, design, communication, housing, community organization, employment, transport, and governance. Links drawn between personal values, human activities, physical spaces and societal governance assist this process of synthesis. Establishing a common vocabulary to discuss planning - for urban and regional planners, including health planners; and open space planners - enables both students and practitioners to work with each other and with those for whom they provide services to create stronger, healthier and more sustainable communities. The aims and roles of community planning are explored and the key planning operations are explained, including the phases and applications of community planning method; the planning and location of community facilities; the roles of design in shaping responsive community spaces; and the capacity of different types of community governance to improve the relations between citizens and societies. The book is organized into two main parts: after the first three chapters have established the interests and scope of community planning, the next six each moves from an account of issues and theoretical concerns, through a review of case studies, to summaries of leading practice. This positive approach is intended to encourage readers to develop their own capacities for effective participation and action. The concluding chapter draws together the contributions of preceding ones to demonstrate the integrity of the community planning process Supplementary website: www.wiley.com/go/heywood

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"So this is a good time to distil key messages from experiences with community planning, and an international perspective can help. Phil Heywood's new book "Community Planning: Integrating Social and Physical Environments" is a good place to start. It includes a compelling case study of the practice of design-led local community involvement in Northern Queensland." (Cliff Hague World View, 1 August 2011) "This volume is a most welcomed contribution to the social planning literature from the highly respected and esteemed academic Phil Heywood. Its tone and tenor echoes his passionate effervescent teaching, scholarship and advocacy across the broad spectrum that is community and social planning and is an engaging read throughout, from the preface to the conclusion." (Australian Planner, 2014, vol.51, no.3, 281-292)
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