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Book Description

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.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements for this edition
  3. Endorsements for the first edition*
  4. Halftitle
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Foreword
  10. Introduction
  11. Using this book
  12. Book Features
  13. SECTION 1. Overview
    1. Philosophy
    2. Key features of Community Planning Events
    3. Benefits of Community Planning Events
    4. Why Community Planning Events work
    5. Community Planning Event Process
  14. SECTION 2. Getting started
    1. Taking the plunge
    2. Organisation
    3. Support bodies
    4. Funding
  15. SECTION 3. Preparation
    1. Managing
    2. Motivating people
    3. Team selection
    4. Student support
    5. Information gathering
    6. Publicity
    7. Venues
    8. Fittings and services
    9. Equipment and supplies
    10. Computers and information technology
  16. SECTION 4. The event
    1. Timetabling
    2. Sample timetables for some event types
    3. Collaborative Design Workshop
    4. Community Planning Weekend
    5. Enquiry by Design (EbD)
    6. Reinvigorate
    7. Stakeholder Participation Day
    8. Briefing
    9. Topic workshops
    10. Opening plenary workshop
    11. Design workshops
    12. Design workshop variations
    13. Plenary report backs
    14. Team working
    15. Report production
    16. Information Flowchart
    17. Sample reports
    18. Public presentation
  17. SECTION 5. Follow-up
    1. What next?
    2. Evaluation
  18. Appendices
    1. Brief history
    2. Publications and sources
    3. Contacts
    4. Early events listing
    5. Case study snapshots
    6. Glossary
    7. Flowchart perspectives
    8. Community Planning Event summary
    9. Community Planning Event planner
    10. Spreading good practice
    11. Photo and illustration credits
    12. Quotation credits
  19. Index
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