The Community Planning Event Manual : How to Use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve Your Environment

How to Use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve Your Environment

By: Nick Wates, John Thompson

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Paperback | 1 March 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Want to improve your town? Your city? Frustrated with conventional planning processes? A Community Planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing special collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an opportunity to have their say and be involved-residents, businesses, professionals and politicians. It's effective and it's fun-but how do you do it? From Nick Wates, the author of the hugely successful The Community Planning Handbook, comes this events manual-the first on the subject-which tells you how to organize Community Planning events-a cooperative and collaborative approach to planning that allows people from different walks of life to participate and work together creatively. The book is aimed at anyone-from concerned individuals to community groups to professional planners in business and government-interested in the potential of Community Planning to make a difference. It includes a step-by-step guide, detailed checklists and other tools for event organizers. The method is user friendly, flexible and easy to employ in any context from small neighborhood improvements to major infrastructure and construction projects anywhere in the world. This book is the must-have manual for all people who want to get involved in improving their communities and local environment-simply indispensable.

Industry Reviews

'Some books help you to learn - this one helps you to deliver! An invaluable tool.' Professor Brian Evans, deputy chair, Architecture+Design Scotland and Partner, Gillespies LLP 'This book helps promote practical work that changes the way people deliver projects in the sustainable communities sector. It is useful, user-friendly and easy to follow. This is the kind of book the busy practitioners of today need to support them in their work.' Professor Peter Roberts, chairman of ASC, the Academy for Sustainable Communities 'Nick Wates is a trail blazer in communicating clear, concise and immediately useful tools and techniques that transmit energy and make you want to get stuck in. This publication is amongst a handful of documents that all urban practitioners should have to hand.' Ian Munt, international urban governance consultant 'The devil is as always in the detail, and Nick Wates' Community Planning Event Manual provides it.' Perry Walker, head, democracy and decision-making, New Economics Foundation 'It is useful, user-friendly and easy to follow...This is the kind of work the busy practitioners of today need to support them in their work' Alison Stainsby, Institution of Civil Engineers.

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