Policy Press

Community Action and Planning

Contexts, Drivers and Outcomes

Edited by Nick Gallent and Daniela Ciaffi

Published

Apr 20, 2016

Page count

304 pages

ISBN

978-1447315179

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Oct 22, 2014

Page count

304 pages

ISBN

978-1447315162

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Oct 22, 2014

Page count

304 pages

ISBN

978-1447321224

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Oct 22, 2014

Page count

304 pages

ISBN

978-1447321231

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press
Community Action and Planning

With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise it and use it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localising democracy.

This unique book analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative action in Marseille.

It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers and for postgraduate students on social policy, planning and community development courses.

Part 1: Framing Community-Based Planning;

Communities, Community Action and Planning ~ Nick Gallent & Daniela Ciaffi;

Communities, Networks and Social Capital ~ Yvonne Rydin;

Time, Belonging and Development: A Challenge for Participation and Research ~ Peter Matthews;

Part 2: Contexts and Drivers for Community Action;

From Residents to Citizens: the Emergence of Neighbourhood Movements in Spain ~ Gemma Vilà;

Community Action in Australian Farming and Fishing Communities ~ Sue Kilpatrick, Karen Willis and Sophie Lewis;

Associative Action in Urban Planning: Cases Studies from Marseille, France ~ Maha Messaoudène, Daniel Pinson & Mustapha Berra;

Communities, land-ownership, housing and planning: reflections from the Scottish experience ~ Madhu Satsangi;

Part 3: Planning at the Community Scale;

The Fourth Way of Active Citizenship: Case Studies from the Netherlands ~ Ton van der Pennen & Hanneke Schreuders ;

Small-town Comprehensive Planning in California: Medial pathways to community-based participation ~ Hemalata Dandekar and Kelly Main;

Engaging neighbourhoods: experiences of transactive planning with communities in England ~ Gavin Parker;

Active communities of interest and the political process in Italy ~ Daniela Ciaffi;

New York City’s community-based housing movement: Achievements and prospects ~ Laura Wolf-Powers;

Community-Based Planning in Freiburg, Germany: The Case of Vauban ~ Iqbal Hamiduddin and Wulf Daseking;

Part 4: Scales, Influence and Integration;

The Scaling of Planning: Administrative Levels and Neighbourhood Mobilization as Obstacles to Planning Consensus ~ Pierre Filion;

Flexible Local Planning: Linking Community Initiative with Municipal Planning in Volda, Norway ~ Jørgen Amdam;

Connecting to the Citizenry: Support Groups in Community Planning in England ~ Nick Gallent;

Reflections on Community Action and Planning ~ Daniela Ciaffi & Nick Gallent.