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Community Planning
Sustaining Active Societies
Phil Heywood (Author)
9781405198875, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 8 April 2011
296 pages
24.4 x 18.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.59 kg
"So this is a good time to distil key messages from experiences with community planning, and an international perspective can help. Phil Heywood's new book "Community Planning: Integrating Social and Physical Environments" is a good place to start. It includes a compelling case study of the practice of design-led local community involvement in Northern Queensland." (Cliff Hague World View, 1 August 2011) "This volume is a most welcomed contribution to the social planning literature from the highly respected and esteemed academic Phil Heywood. Its tone and tenor echoes his passionate effervescent teaching, scholarship and advocacy across the broad spectrum that is community and social planning and is an engaging read throughout, from the preface to the conclusion." (Australian Planner, 2014, vol.51, no.3, 281-292)
This key planning textbook on designing healthy and sustainable communities informs planners about community life and the processes of planning and equips them with the essential knowledge and skills they need to organise change and improve the quality of urban living. The author examines the impacts of social and economic change on community life and organization and explores ways in which these changes can be planned and managed. Community planning is presented as a means to balance and integrate beneficial change with the maintenance of valued cultural traditions and life styles. This involves bringing together fields of study and practice including urban and regional planning, design, communication, housing, community organization, employment, transport, and governance. Links drawn between personal values, human activities, physical spaces and societal governance assist this process of synthesis. Establishing a common vocabulary to discuss planning - for urban and regional planners, including health planners; and open space planners - enables both students and practitioners to work with each other and with those for whom they provide services to create stronger, healthier and more sustainable communities. The aims and roles of community planning are explored and the key planning operations are explained, including the phases and applications of community planning method; the planning and location of community facilities; the roles of design in shaping responsive community spaces; and the capacity of different types of community governance to improve the relations between citizens and societies. The book is organized into two main parts: after the first three chapters have established the interests and scope of community planning, the next six each moves from an account of issues and theoretical concerns, through a review of case studies, to summaries of leading practice. This positive approach is intended to encourage readers to develop their own capacities for effective participation and action. The concluding chapter draws together the contributions of preceding ones to demonstrate the integrity of the community planning process Supplementary website: www.wiley.com/go/heywood
Preface 1 The Nature and Planning of Community Life Part One: Social and Economic Changes The current cascade of change Part Two: Community Life and Change Contemporary challenges to community life Part Three: Competing Interpretations of Community Structure and Change Order: genetically driven dominance Part Four: The Roles of Cooperation Cooperation in practice 2 The Spirit and Characteristics of Community Planning Part One: Themes Communication Part Two: Applications Necessary conditions for effective community consultation 3 Local Communities of Place and Contact Social and organisational characteristics of local communities 4 Communities of Interest and Interaction City communities 5 Human Values and Community Goals Value formation 6 Communities of Method Art and creativity in planning 7 Activities and their Analysis The links between activity systems and values 8 People, Homes and Communities Demographic challenges in meeting global and local housing needs 9 Facets of Community Justifications for community intervention 10 Places, Spaces and Community Design Places and their properties 11 Community Governance and Participation Governance, government and community participation 12 Conclusions: Community Planning Today and Tomorrow The elements of community planning Themes, roles and future directions The future of community planning Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Productivity and exchange: through market competition
Control through transcendence of conflict: equality through struggle
Collaboration: through negotiation, adjustment and mutual aid
Conclusions
Consultation
Participation and exclusion
The significance of participatory theories
Negotiation
The role and themes of consultation
Methods of consultation
Consultation techniques
Conclusion: relations of community planning with community action, community development and community organisation
The physical forms of communities
Spatial justice
The planning of places
Community participation and governance
Conclusion: the durability of local communities of place and contact
Regional interest communities
National communities
Supranational political communities
Global communities
The many levels of community planning
Conclusion: mixed scanning for integrated community planning
The value of prosperity
The value of liberty
The values of social justice
Values for sustainable communities
Relations among the four community values
Conclusions: how values can combine to help solve problems and shape creative plans
Science, knowledge and planning method
Planning as a craft
Political control and community participation
Conclusions: values as the basis for communities of method
The uses of models of activities
The role of systems theory within the planning process
Activity systems analysis in practice
Conclusions: the roles of activity systems in community planning
Appendix 1 Household demand and housing land supply statistics, Greater Brisbane 1996–2016
Appendix 2 Employment Projections: Brisbane Statistical Division
Key Assumptions
Technological responses and impacts
Roads, wheels, wagons and motor vehicles
Costs, means and access to provision and finance of housing
Balancing demand and supply for shelter
Conclusions: the contributions of shelter to community life
The planning and organisation of work
The place of learning in community life
The planning and delivery of health services
Conclusion: the many facets of community
Communal and collective spaces and places
The language of design and the vocabulary of space and place
Place-making: designing to make life
Models of urban form
Conclusion: bringing places to life
Issues of freedom and order
The roles of negotiation and partnership
The development and evaluation of policies and proposals
Roles and responsibilities in governance and participation
Scales of community and their roles of governance and control
Conclusions: the contributions of participation and governance to community life
References
Index
A colour plate section
Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
