- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; Spi edition (21 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415260094
- ISBN-13: 978-0415260091
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 744,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Shaping Neighbourhoods emphasises the scale of the challenge confronting local decision-makers planners practitioners and resource managers in engaging with their residents to accelerate the profound step changes needed to generate neighbourhoods characterised by joined-up social equality prosperity and environmental integrity. It is a readable and accessible volume.' - Town and Country Planning
Mark Southgate, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
‘If we act on its advice, and we act together we can shape better, healthier places for people to live in. This is not utopia, this is a necessity.’
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This is a really easy to use and helpful book. I have previously worked in practice and could see how this book would be an essential for any planners library - I now work in academia and it is a brilliant reference book for my own work and for students. It comprehensively covers critical issues around sustainability and health and how our neighbourhoods can be better designed and managed. I particularly like the extensive diagrams, graphics and illustrations used throughout. I would highly recommend this book to students and practitioners.
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Writing as a practitioner involved in both Landscape Planning and Public Health this book comes highly recommended. It is a practical and useful toolkit, bridging the gap between Spatial Planning and Public Health, and providing a vehicle for moving Policy towards Action. For Planners, it encourages a reinterpretation of Sustainable Development (SD), expanding the normal "environmental" interpretation of SD to embrace aspects of the "Social" dimension; health. For Health Professionals it provides an understanding of the urban environment from a planning perspective, the context for health promotion initiatives. By so doing it expands the planning horizon, challenging conventional approaches and identifying opportunities for progress. Importantly it also encourages cooperative involvement across professional disciplines for the creation of truly healthy sustainable communities. A must for any library.
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I had little idea what to expect from this book. I knew nothing about it except that it might help in tying together the elements of how to develop neighbourhoods in a more sustainable way and in a way that helps people live more healthy lives. I thought that would be an interesting concept. Having now read the book I can say that if someone asked me "Should I read this book" I'd say yes. And if someone asked me "Tell me a good book to read on this subject", this one would be somewhere very near to the top of the list.
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I bought this book to assist me with a module in university, but as somebody else has said, there is no logical structure to it! Read more
I bought this book to assist me with a module in university, but as somebody else has said, there is no logical structure to it! Read more
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This new edition is a wonderful source book and inspiration.
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The future of sustainable Town Planning?
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