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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