Tools for Community Planning

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1. The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

   By Nabeel Hamdi

   Series: Tools for Community Planning

   From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context. Drawing on four decades of...

   Published April 22nd 2010 by Routledge
2. Creative Community Planning

   Transformative Engagement Methods for Working at the Edge

   By Wendy Sarkissian, Dianna Hurford, Christine Wenman

   Series: Tools for Community Planning

   Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in artistic, narrative, embodied and technological methods. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice, the authors explore the frontiers of community engagement within a fresh sustainability framework....

   Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
3. Kitchen Table Sustainability

   Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability

   By Wendy Sarkissian, with Nancy Hofer, Yollana Shore, Steph Vajda, Cathy Wilkinson

   Series: Tools for Community Planning

   Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement. It takes sustainability out of the ivory towers of universities, government departments and planners to the kitchen tables of the world. This practical guide distils decades of wisdom from...

   Published November 9th 2008 by Routledge
4. The Community Planning Event Manual

   How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

   By Nick Wates, Nick Wates, John Thompson

   Series: Tools for Community Planning

   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...

   Published July 31st 2008 by Routledge
5. The Community Planning Handbook

   "How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World"

   By Nick Wates

   Series: Tools for Community Planning

   Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful range of methods available, from design workshops to electronic maps. The Community Planning Handbook is the essential starting point for all those involved -...

   Published September 30th 1999 by Routledge