The Community Planning Event Manual: How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment (Earthscan Tools for Community Planning)
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Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic 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.From Nick Wates, author of the hugely successful Community Planning Handbook, comes this Event Manual, the first on the subject, which explains why and how to organize community planning events. The book is aimed at anyone - from concerned individuals to community groups to professional planners in business and government - interested in the remarkable potential of community planning events. It includes a step-by-step guide, detailed checklists and other tools for event organisers. The method is user-friendly, flexible and easy to employ in any context from small neighbourhood improvements to major infrastructure and construction projects anywhere in the world.With a Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales and Introduction by John Thompson.
Reviews
I wanted to find a way to involve our community in planning for climate change and after doing a little research realized that I was not going to have to invent the wheel. In fact, I found a number of books on the subject of Deliberative Democracy (citizen involvement with municipalities in planning and decision making). I found examples of how some communities and cities are trying to promote citizen input, but until I found this book, I still would not have known where to start. This Event Manual is very good paired with its companion also by Nick Wates, The Community Planning Handbook: How people can shape their cities, towns and villages in any part of the world. The first gives an overview of the planning process, funding, preparation, publicity, an overview of possible workshops, final report preparation, and a timetable for organizers. The Handbook gives more in depth information about planning workshop sessions, use of facilitators, use of interactive maps and displays, and provides example scenarios. Both books provide information in an easy to absorb outline and a visual format that helps the reader get a better sense of the final process and feel of an actual planning event. I highly recommend them both.