The Community Planning Handbook: How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World

by Nick Wates

Overview

Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools available, from design workshops to electronic maps. The Community Planning Handbook is the essential starting point for all those involved: planners and local authorities, architects and other practitioners, community workers, students and local residents. It features an accessible how-to-do-it style, best practice information on effective methods, and international scope and relevance. Tips, checklists and sample documents help readers to get started quickly, learn from others' experience and to select the approach best suited to their situation. The glossary, bibliography and contact details provide quick access to further information and support. This fully updated new edition contains extra material on following up after community engagement activities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138412804
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/28/2017
Series:	Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nick Wates is a writer, researcher, publisher and project consultant specialising in community involvement in planning and design. He is director of Nick Wates Associates Limited, Community Planning Specialists, and Site Editor of communityplanning.net

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. General principles A-Z 3. Methods A-Z 4. Scenarios A-Z 5. Programmes 6. Case Studies Appendices

Editorial Reviews

Congratulations on a brilliant piece of collaborative work. I am in awe! —Wendy Sarkissian, Australia

This book will help all those concerned with shaping the environment to get started quickly, learn from others’ experience and undertake community planning with understanding and sensitivity. Nick Wates has done it again. —Joan Kean MBE, Town & Country Planning

A wonderful work. The contribution of this book in the field of planning will be widely acknowledged. It will not only be helpful for planners but also to the lay people planning day to day life activity in their respective cities —Piyush Rout, Urban Regional Planner, Orissa, India

As a practical handbook on ways of working with communities on environmental and planning matters, this is a real winner… Above all, this book is designed to be useful to readers and users, and to give them the confidence to start working in these ways, and at that it succeeds brilliantly. —Diane Warburton, EG

From the Publisher

This is the best practical guide to running a community planning event, and a must for community groups and councils both in the UK and abroad.

Roger Evans

We are finding The Community Planning Handbook very useful and...plan on ordering multiple copies.

Susan Boyd

This is a useful resource guide for people who want to influence the design of their city or town. Wates well-organized primer on community planning offers numerous ideas that could be helpful to "ordinary" people who are interested in organizing a local planning effort but may not know how to begin. It is attractively designed and well-illustrated, presents a brief overview of general principles... And also provides 16 short scenarios of common development situations.

Futurist

All over the world there is an increasing demand for people's participation in the process of planning and managing their built environment. However, not many books on community planning and participation are written in a ' how to do it' style for a wide audience.... The handbook is very easy to read and understand, due to its simple and concise language, clearly structured format and layout, alphabetical ordering, illustrations and communicative icons....(it is a valuable steppingstone in promoting democratic community participation in shaping the built environment.

Urban Policy and Research

A very clear, well organized and extremely useful book for those who are or who ought to be promoting democratic participation in shaping the future of our communities. In addition to prudent principles, a well researched overview of methods and good examples of specific tools, the Scenarios section demonstrates how the various methods described can be mixed and matched to meet the unique circumstances found in any community. With its emphasis on flexibility and adaptation in the face of experience, this is a book that I will recommend to clients and colleagues alike.

J. Gary Lawrence

The clear and concise copy as well as the very appealing graphic formatting make this an excellent handbook which will be useful to so many different users in so many ways.

Tony Costello

This excellent work shows an absolute understanding of the issues of consultation/participation.

Peter;Richards Deicke Richards

Grassroots planning is now orthodox and Nick Wates' book is an excellent and comprehensive catalogue of how to do it. ...The intended reader appears to be both the experienced professional and the lay resident - a difficult trick to pull off, which books on democratizing design rarely achieve, but this one does... I hope to come across lots of well-thumbed copies in libraries, community associations and architects offices.

Joe Holyoak