Product Description

Current policies in planning emphasise the importance of rejuvenating neighbourhoods. This new guide seeks to bridge the gap between rhetoric and reality, promoting an interprofessional and collaborative approach to making localities work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #203077 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Ed Nayo, Executive Director, New Economics Foundation.
‘A worthy heir to five hundred years of encyclopaedias, offering knowledge on complex issues in a simple, easy-to-use way.’

Review
'Shaping Neighbourhoods emphasises the scale of the challenge confronting local decision-makers planners practitioners and resource managers in engaging with their residents to accelerate the profound step changes needed to generate neighbourhoods characterised by joined-up social equality prosperity and environmental integrity. It is a readable and accessible volume.' - Town and Country Planning

Alison West, Director, Community Development Foundation
‘Shaping Neighbourhoods is essential reading for communities seeking to influence the planning process.’

Customer Reviews

The future of sustainable Town Planning?
If I have a gripe about this book it is with the structure, which although very well signposted throughout, does not seem to share a clear logic like the earlier 'Sustainable Settlements' which was ordered by spatial scale (strategic to local). The new guide by comparison seems less logical, and sections overlap much more. Perhaps this merely reflects the fact that settlements are not logical, but are complex constructions that cannot easily be parcelled up for discussion. Either way if this is the future of sustainable Town Planning it appears that the subject is to become more vague and unfocused, with a less systematic and methodical approach, something planning desperately needs in this country. A disappointment!