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

by Nick Wates
Published by Earthscan Publications Limited, 2008

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 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.

This Event Manual, the first on the subject, 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.

The Community Planning Event Manual is a revised and updated version of Action Planning.

"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, full of case studies to illustrate ideas. This is the kind of work the busy practitioners of today need to support them in their work."
Professor Peter Roberts, Chairman, Academy for Sustainable Communities

"Just as planning decisions should be tailored to suit the needs of the community so too should the processes that achieve those decisions. This book advocates just that in a manner that is accessible to both community groups and planning offices. The sections on financial planning, event timescale and the final chapter, Follow Up, are particularly constructive."
Dr Katharine Martindale, Director of Cities Research Alliance

"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

"Some books help you to learn – this one helps you to deliver! An invaluable tool for anyone involved in community planning."
Professor Brian Evans, Deputy Chair, Architecture+Design Scotland and Partner, Gillespies llp

"The devil is as always in the detail, and Nick Wates’ Community Planning Event Manual provides it. If you want to know the effect of having carpet in your venue, or what coloured Post-its to use, this is the book for you."
Perry Walker, Head of Democracy and Decision-making, New Economics Foundation
 

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

By Nick Wates with Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales and Introduction by John Thompson
Designed by Jeremy Brook, Graphic Ideas
Earthscan Publications Ltd, 2008
ISBN 9781844074921

With the generous support of
The Academy of Urbanism
English Partnerships
John Thompson & Partners
The Prince’s Foundation

128 pages,  210 x 148mm, 98 photos, 32 illustrations, full colour throughout.

French translation and adaptation:
Concertation citoyenne en urbanisme
La méthode du Community Planning

Eléonore Hauptmann & Nick Wates
Yves Michelle, 2010
www.yvesmichel.org
http://www.yvesmichel.org/webmaster/nouveautes-livres/670
ISBN: 978 2 913492 73 8
 
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French translation & adaptation from Yves Michelle
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