Community Planning and Planning Techniques

An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive, practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors’ own teaching, and through the training they provide for practicing planners, it enables students to make connections between academic study and practical know-..

Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas provides community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy that enriches communities and their residents, critically examining the central tensions and complexities in arts policy and payin..

Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas provides community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy that enriches communities and their residents, critically examining the central tensions and complexities in arts policy and payin..

Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting edge practice and builds theory around a rights based approach to women’s safety in the context of poverty reduction and social incl..

21st Century Philanthropy and Community fills a gap in the literature on philanthropic organizations and how they intertwine with community development. Maria Martinez-Cosio and Mirle Bussell use their own first hand experiences and research to forge a new path for academic research in an area where..

21st Century Philanthropy and Community fills a gap in the literature on philanthropic organizations and how they intertwine with community development. Maria Martinez-Cosio and Mirle Bussell use their own first hand experiences and research to forge a new path for academic research in an area where..

City Unsilenced brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and scholar-activists to examine the spaces, conditions and processes in which neoliberal practices have profoundly impacted the everyday social, economic, and political life of citizens and communities around the globe. By bette..

City Unsilenced brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and scholar-activists to examine the spaces, conditions and processes in which neoliberal practices have profoundly impacted the everyday social, economic, and political life of citizens and communities around the globe. By bette..

Using a blend of theory and practice, experts in the field look at evidence from international, state and local perspectives to explore what is meant by the term "livable communities". Chapters examine the various influencing factors such as the effect and importance of transportation options/altern..

Using a blend of theory and practice, experts in the field look at evidence from international, state and local perspectives to explore what is meant by the term "livable communities". Chapters examine the various influencing factors such as the effect and importance of transportation options/altern..

Shows how and why engaged research and participatory learning methods should be adpoted in design and planning education..

Community visioning is key in helping local public officials and community leaders create a flourishing future for their cities, and is essential for the effective planning and implementation of these strategies.  Visioning involves collaborative goal setting to motivate actions – of planners, citiz..