
Planning Canadian Communities, 7th Edition
Digital teaching aids may be available for this title. All instructor requests are reviewed by our team before the files are made accessible.
With this edition, Planning Canadian Communities begins its 34th year of analysis of the public endeavour of community planning in the cities, towns, and regions of Canada. The past three decades have been a time of immense learning, both for the field of community planning and for the authors. Winner of the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) Award for Planning Excellence for a Planning Publication, “Planning Canadian Communities…is being recognized for its significant contribution to the field of study in planning remaining the most recognizable and relevant textbook in planning schools across Canada.” Plan Canada lauds the book as: “…a classic in the literature dealing with Canadian community planning practice. …it is essentially without peer—as an academic text, a comprehensive lay-person’s primer, and as a basis for charting the emergence of a profession for some, a discipline for others, and a cause for all….” Planning Canadian Communities is the nation’s standard survey textbook on community planning. It provides a comprehensive view of the needs, origins, contemporary practices, and future challenges in planning Canadian cities, towns, and regions. The text describes the history of community planning in Canada, how it works today and who participates in it.
Features
- *NEW* Entire book has been extensively revised to reflect the state of Canadian community planning practice in the early 21st century
- *NEW* New chapter on the role of planners (Chapter 2)
- *NEW* New Feature: Planner Profile boxes featuring Canadian community planners who share their stories of plans they are proud to have been involved in.
- *NEW* Content from Natural and Built Environments incorporated into Chapters 8 & 9
- *NEW* More in-depth discussion of sustainability plans for cities and the environment
- *NEW* Extensive expansion of coverage on planning with Indigenous peoples is integrated throughout the book, so that its practices might be more easily compared with other approaches
- *NEW* References to contemporary literature have been expanded to reflect the burgeoning Canadian writing on community planning
- *NEW* Full-colour illustrations and photos throughout, many of them brand new to this edition
- Planning Practice chapters reflect current perspectives in the field, including those of planning for small, rural, and Indigenous communities
- Feature images from plans that won national awards from the Canadian Institute of Planners
- Winner of the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) Award for Planning Excellence for a Planning Publication
- "Planner Profiles" are integrated to highlight famous historical urbanists and leading professional planners from across Canada
Table of Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Part One: The Foundations of Canadian Community Planning
- Chapter 1: The Need for Community Planning
- Chapter 2: The Role of the Planner
- Chapter 3: The Beginnings of Today?s Cities
- Chapter 4: 19th Century Foundations of Canadian Communities
- Chapter 5: Pioneering Community Planning in Canada, 1900-1945
- Chapter 6: The Revival of Canadian Community Planning, 1945-2016
- Part Two: Community Plan-Making in Canada
- Chapter 7: The Community Plan-Making Process
- Chapter 8: Regional and Metropolitan Planning
- Chapter 9: The Urban Community Plan
- Chapter 10: Planning Small Towns in Rural and Northern Regions
- Part Three: Planning for People and Places in the Community
- Chapter 11: Planning for Special Places: Neighbourhood and District Plans
- Chapter 12: Planning Infrastructure Systems to Connect Communities
- Chapter 13: Planning for Diverse and Healthy Communities
- Part Four: Participants and Participation in Community Plan-Making
- Chapter 14: Deciding Upon the Community?s Plan
- Chapter 15: The Texture of Participation in Community Planning
- Part Five: Implementing Community Plans
- Chapter 16: Land Use Regulation
- Chapter 17: Policy Tools for Plan Implementation
- Epilogue: Community Planning in Canada and the Future
- Appendix
- Index