The Community Planning Handbook

The Community Planning Handbook

Author: Nick Wates

Publisher: Earthscan

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1853836540

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Community planning is a rapidly developing, increasingly important field. The Community Planning Handbook is a comprehensive, practical guide, with tips, checklists and sample documents to help the reader get started quickly.


Communities in Action

Communities in Action

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 0309452961

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.


Get Together

Get Together

Author: Bailey Richardson

Publisher: Stripe Press

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1953953328

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A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL. Although communities feel magical, they don’t come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a movement of K–12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them. In Get Together, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto of People & Company share true stories of everyday people who have created thriving communities, both in person and online. They provide clear steps to untangle the challenge of getting passionate people together, helping individuals and organizations navigate the intricacies of leading a community, including: - How to rally the first people - How to get people talking - How to attract new, authentic folks - How to develop leaders and expand globally. The People & Company team reminds us that we each hold the potential to spark a community. Get Together shows readers that if we join forces—as company and customers, artist and fans, organizer and advocates—we’ll do more together than we ever could alone.


Disability Culture and Community Performance

Disability Culture and Community Performance

Author: P. Kuppers

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0230316581

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Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture.


Invisible Influence

Invisible Influence

Author: Jonah Berger

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-06-20

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1476759731

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You think that your choices and behaviors are driven by your individual, personal tastes, and opinions. Our own personal thoughts and opinions is patently obvious. Right? Wrong. Other people's behavior has a huge influence on everything we do, from the mundane to the momentous. Berger integrates research and thinking from business, psychology, and social science to focus on the subtle, invisible influences behind our choices as individuals


Shaping Communities

Shaping Communities

Author: Carter L. Hudgins

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780870499517

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Ed: SUNY, Buffalo, Revised papers from two conferences, 1992 and 1993.


Networked News, Racial Divides

Networked News, Racial Divides

Author: Sue Robinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1108419895

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Tracks power, privilege, and processes of community trust building in digitized media ecologies, focusing on public dialogues about racial inequality.


Studying Christian Spirituality

Studying Christian Spirituality

Author: David B. Perrin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-08-07

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1134159153

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This book provides a new introduction to the study of Christian spirituality, exploring it through the human sciences and ranging from philosophy and hermeneutics to psychology, history, sociology and anthropology. Systematic and progressive, it introduces the key approaches and shows how they relate to the understanding, study and practice of spirituality. Covering a vast amount of ground - from traditional themes such as images of God, spiritual direction and pilgrimage to more contemporary issues, such as place and space, cyberspace and postcolonialism - the author takes an ecumenical, inclusive stance, allowing the book to be used in a wide variety of courses and across denominations.