Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in artistic; narrative; embodied and technological methods. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice; the authors explore the frontiers of community engagement within a fresh sustainability framework. Leading planning theorists; researchers and practitioners in the field reflect with the authors on the many successes and challenges in engaging with a diversity of people in rural and urban communities. These conversations reveal creativity as key to enhancing existing engagement practices. Concepts and practical applications thread through the book; including community visioning; participatory research and reporting; conflict resolution; poetry and planning language; theatre; photography; film and websites.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Wait Until It Comes to Your LibraryBy Peter HillmanWe have a pre-eminent Lincoln historian. a fabled editor. Harvard Press and the remarkable (and conflicted) freeing of 4.000.000 slaves. The publication obviously could not be more timely. Given these pedigrees. I had every reason to expect another magisterial triumph. particularly at $24.95 (if Prime).What I suggest we have. however. is an exceedingly slender 172 pages (small in every respect and wide margins to boot). An afternoons interesting reading.The writing is. as always with Holzer. lively and crisp and the research and analysis insightful. Theres just not enough of it (for me at least). and no new earth is plowed.The illustrations (part of the "iconography" Holzer ably brings to all he does) are interesting but not compelling enough to justify the purchase price.Ironically. I searched in vain for the actual texts of the three versions of the Proclamation. Only two illustrations contain the text (have your magnifying glass at hand).To be sure. the historians are on the money in the positive jacket blurbs. But heres the thing: were accustomed to so much more from Mr. Holzer; the Proclamation. on its 150th Birthday and at any time. deserves more; and customers must choose how to spend $25.00.At the risk of committing Holzer heresy. its recommended one take a pass. Perhaps podcasts of the lectures are available (listen also to the recent NPR interview). Unless one is a serious Lincoln book collector. this fine read can await.Personally. for a fuller treatment. Id respectfully recommend Professor Guelzos 2006 "Emancipation Proclamation." currently $10 in paperback and $12 in Kindle. For a recent example of magnificent Holzer work. please consider his 2009 "Lincoln President-Elect and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861" (similarly priced to Guelzos work).btw. too bad Mr. Holzer and didnt connect...this could have made a terrific Kindle Single... even at $3.99 it could have found an appropriately vast and eager audience!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Buy itBy David MarshallAnother very good book by a leading Lincoln Scholar.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I enjoyed the bookBy Carol CampbellPurchased for research while developing a program. I enjoyed the book. and it will also remain part of my Lincoln collection. .
