Community Planning: Integrating Social and Physical Environments

摘要

The casual reader may, as I did, assume that 'community planning' can be read as a synonym for 'neighbourhood planning', and that this book is therefore a textbook on planning at the smallest scale. This assumption is swiftly negated by Heywood, who takes the broader position that communities can, and do, exist at a number of levels: 'Communities consist of groups of people who experience and acknowledge significant links, expectations and responsibilities towards each other ... "community" may mean different things at different scales and to different people' (p. 5). Heywood then identifies six scales of such community: local, city/district, region/metropolis, national, supranational and global.