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  1. The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

    By Nabeel Hamdi

    Series: Earthscan 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. Community Visioning Programs

    Processes and Outcomes

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Gisele Hamm

    Series: Community Development Research and Practice Series

    Community visioning is key in helping local public officials and community leaders create a flourishing future for their cities, and is essential for the effective planning and implementation of these strategies. Visioning involves collaborative goal setting to motivate actions – of planners,...

    Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge

  3. Theory, Practice, and Community Development

    Edited by Mark Brennan, Jeffrey Birdger, Theodore Alter

    Series: Community Development Research and Practice Series

    For many scholars, the study of community and community development is at a crossroads. Previously dynamic theories appear not to have kept pace with the major social changes of our day. Given our constantly shifting social reality we need new ideas and research that pushes the boundaries of...

    To Be Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Catalysts for Change

    21st Century Philanthropy and Community Development

    By Maria Martinez-Cosio, Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell

    Series: Community Development Research and Practice Series

    21st Century Philanthropy and Community fills a gap in the literature on philanthropic organizations and how they intertwine with community development. Drawing first on the history of philanthropic funding, Maria Martinez-Cosio and Mirle Bussell look at developments in the last twenty...

    To Be Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge

  5. Community Livability

    Issues and Approaches to Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities

    Edited by Fritz Wagner, Roger Caves

    What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nuture the cause of livable communities? Using a blend of theory and practice, experts in the field look at evidence from international, state and local perspectives to...

    Published January 16th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Building Competences for Spatial Planners

    Methods and Techniques for Performing Tasks with Efficiency

    By Anastassios Perdicoulis

    Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

    Spatial planning is a process. The focus of this book is on the sequence of key tasks that constitute the process and on special techniques that are suitable to conduct these tasks. Spatial planners require a number of skills to manage this process in an efficient manner, select the necessary tasks...

    Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Planning with Complexity

    An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy

    By Judith E. Innes, David E. Booher

    Analyzing emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy to overcome the challenges complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty, the authors present a new theory of collaborative rationality, to help make sense of the new practices. They enquire in detail into how collaborative...

    Published March 29th 2010 by Routledge

  8. Representing Landscapes

    A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings

    Edited by Nadia Amoroso

    What do you communicate when you draw an industrial landscape using charcoal; what about a hyper-realistic PhotoShop collage method? What are the right choices to make? Are there right and wrong choices when it comes to presenting a particular environment in a particular way? The...

    Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge

  9. The Gentrification Reader

    Edited by Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly

    Gentrification remains a subject of heated debate in the public realm as well as scholarly and policy circles. This Reader brings together the classic writings and contemporary literature that has helped to define the field, changed the direction of how it is studied and illustrated the points...

    Published March 1st 2010 by Routledge