A database of community planning methods, scenarios, projects and further resources, this website hopes to provide accessible, universal advice to a diverse range of community members and encourage more widespread involvement in planning initiatives.
This website is determined to make community planning accessible to all community members and encourage collaboration with professionals in shaping local environments. CommunityPlanning.net is designed to get people at work in their communities on the issues which concern them—regardless of community type or location. It hopes to give universal advice helpful to residents of large urban centers and small villages alike.
CommunityPlanning.net offers an organized database of tools, resources, and other documentation to help people get involved in community planning. The website walks users through general principles of community planning, methods for getting more people involved, scenarios, projects, and helpful contacts and websites from A to Z. It also presents a variety of case studies, or examples of community planning in action, and a review of different policies and laws relating to community planning in different countries. The scenarios section is unique; it shows how methods might be used in particular planning or community development situations. Unlike a case study, which provides a history of how methods were applied, these scenarios show how strategies might be built up-front when planning a community development initiative.
Nick Wates, the developer of CommunityPlanning.net, also wrote The Community Planning Handbook, a companion to the website and written with a similar how-to structure and approach to participatory community development.
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