The Citizen's Guide to Planning
The Citizen's Guide to Planning

Author: Christopher Duerksen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 135117794X

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APA's popular primer for citizens is all new! For decades, planning officials and engaged citizens have relied on this book for a better understanding of the basics of planning. Now the authors have revised this perennial bestseller into a 21st-century guide for anyone who wants to make his or her community a better place. This book describes the land-use planning process, the key players in that process, and the legal framework in which decisions are made. The authors advocate principles and disciplines that will help those involved in the process make good decisions. In easy-to-understand language, they offer nuts-and-bolts information about different types of plans and how they are implemented. Chapters cover the goals and values of planning, the history of planning, the different people and organizations involved, the creation and implementation of a comprehensive plan, sustainability, the application review process, and legal and ethical questions.

A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
A Citizen's Guide to City Politics

Author: Jason Prince

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781551647791

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Eric Shragge taught community organizing and development at Concordia and now works with Mostafa Henaway as an organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre. Jason Prince is an urban planner and social economy expert who teaches at Concordia University in Montreal,

Action Now!
Action Now!

Author: Richard Waverly Poston

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Designed as a practical guide, this new book presents workable programs and plans--from "dressing up" alleys to en­ticing new industry--designed to help citizens and their local officials work together to enrich the quality of com­munity life. Tailored to the conditions of the 1970s and beyond, and based on successful pioneer work tested and demonstrated in other communities, this is a "down-­to-earth" textbook for citizens who wish to improve their community. It shows how all segments of the community can bring themselves together to make a precise appraisal of their assets and lia­bilities, identify and diagnose their local and area problems, collect perti­nent facts, motivate concerted efforts for improvement, and develop sound, coordinated action. For teachers and students of commu­nity development as well as lay persons active in local affairs You and Your Com­munity is the definitive textbook--a product of the author's more than thirty years of successful experience in com­munity and area development.