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The Community Planning Event Manual: 
How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

by Nick Wates
Published by Earthscan, 2008
ISBN 9781844074921

With a Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales, now King Charles, and an Introduction by legendary architect John Thompson.

128 pages, 210 x 148mm, 98 photos, 32 illustrations, full colour throughout.

Explains how and why to organise community planning events, often called charrettes, in any context from small neighbourhood improvements to major infrastructure and construction projects anywhere in the world. Includes a step-by-step guide, detailed checklists and other tools for event organisers.

‘This book helps promote practical work that changes the way people deliver projects in the sustainable communities sector. It is useful, user-friendly and easy to follow, full of case studies to illustrate ideas. This is the kind of work the busy practitioners of today need to support them in their work.’
Professor Peter Roberts, Chairman, Academy for Sustainable Communities

‘Just as planning decisions should be tailored to suit the needs of the community so too should the processes that achieve those decisions. This book advocates just that in a manner that is accessible to both community groups and planning officers. The sections on financial planning, event timescale and the final chapter, Follow Up, are particularly constructive.’
Dr Katharine Martindale, Director of Cities Research Alliance

‘Nick Wates is a trail blazer in communicating clear, concise and immediately useful tools and techniques that transmit energy and make you want to get stuck in. This publication is amongst a handful of documents that all urban practitioners should have’.
Ian Munt, International Urban Governance Consultant

‘Some books help you to learn – this one helps you to deliver! An invaluable tool for anyone involved in community planning.’
Professor Brian Evans, Deputy Chair, Architecture+Design Scotland and Partner, Gillespies llp

‘The devil is as always in the detail, and Nick Wates’ Community Planning Event Manual provides it. If you want to know the effect of having carpet in your venue, or what coloured Post-its to use, this is the book for you.’
Perry Walker, Head of Democracy and Decision-making, New Economics Foundation

‘… of enormous value to anyone working in the development industry: developers, public sector organisations, community groups and professional advisers. As the planning system moves more and more towards a process-driven decision-making framework, with the active participation of local people in that process, this book will become a ‘must-have’ for anyone engaged in development projects…’
Pat Willoughby, Head of Housing & Regeneration Policy, West Midlands Combined Authority

For a paperback or hardback, please order from Routledge.

For a French version see Concertation citoyenne en urbanisme

For a German version see TO COME