The Community Planning Event Manual: How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

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.

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The Community Planning Event Manual: How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

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.

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The Community Planning Event Manual: How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

The Community Planning Event Manual: How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

The Community Planning Event Manual: How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

The Community Planning Event Manual: How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136554544
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/17/2013
Series: Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 142
File size: 23 MB
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About the Author

Nick Wates is director of Nick Wates Associates, community planning consultants, author of The Community Planning Handbook (2000) and site editor of www.communityplanning.net.

Table of Contents

Preface * Foreword * Introduction * Using this book * Overview * Getting started * Preparation * The event * Follow-up * Appendices * Index
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