Living Together
Towards Inclusive Communities

Edited by Claire Freeman & Michelle Thompson-Fawcett

Key Points

• Accessible book about community planning for professionals/leaders
• Expert advice and practical solutions for community development
• Topical NZ case studies
• Well illustrated with photographs and diagrams

Book

How do we develop inclusive, engaged communities?

In this book experts in community planning review some of the challenges, strategies and solutions, using New Zealand case studies. The needs of specific groups - whether migrant, the young, elderly or indigenous - and community ties with local and central government are explored. The Treaty of Waitangi, the influence of feminism and the development of online communities are other aspects that are considered.

Importantly, the book provides tools for achieving healthy commuities, with strategies to empower their members and ensure they are heard.

'Review Quotes

'Drawing on recent social science research ... offers fascinating insights into New Zealand communities, and the editors have done us a service in compiling such an interesting collection.' – NZ Geographical Society journal, 2007

Contents

1 Introduction
Part I: Empowering our diverse communities
2 Central government and its role in community planning
3 Treaty values and the Resource Management Act 1991
4 Planning for cultural diversity
5 Is New Zealand a post-feminist paradise?
6 Creating welcoming communities for children and young people
7 Planning for an ageing population
8 Communities online

Part 2: Tools for Achieving Better Communities
9 From floral clocks to civic flourish
10 Theoretical and practical co-management: an indigenous perspective
11 Design-led participatory planning
12 Building community consensus and social capital
13 Community development
14 'Getting on': living close together
15 Healthy communities
16 Planning to live together

Editors

Claire Freeman is Director of the Planning Programme, University of Otago. She has held lecturing posts at universities in Britain, South Africa and New Zealand. She was a planner for the Urban Wildlife Trust in Birmingham (UK).

Michelle Thompson-Fawcett is Senior Lecturer in Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Otago. She worked in planning practice for ten years. With Claire Freeman, she co-edited Living Space: Towards sustainable settlements in NZ (Otago, 2003).

Publication details

Community planning, Geography
paperback, 230 x 150 mm, 240 pages, ISBN 1 877372 29 3, $39.95
Publication Date: October 2006