Planning, funding, and community action : the area assistance story
Bamford, Judi
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This book celebrates the enormous achievement of the Area Assistance Scheme over its 30-year history in encouraging and resourcing community and social infrastructure, networks, support systems, and innovation. In sharing the history of the AAS in Western Sydney (where it began) and on the Central Coast, this book also provides community workers, activists, students, scholars, and policy makers with ideas, processes, and lessons for working collaboratively and respectfully with local communities. Including eye witness accounts, extensive research, analysis, and discussion, the book connects influential ideas and perspectives shaping social policy and resource allocation with practical examples of how this can and does happen using different funding models. If you work in the community sector, are part of a local group or organisation, or are interested in learning about work with local communities, this book will provide you with valuable examples of how participatory planning can be supported. If you are a policy maker, academic, student, or politician, this book will provide a critical analysis, which links key policy ideas with the practicalities of implementation at a local level.
Main title:
Planning, funding, and community action : the area assistance story / Judi Bamforth, Barbara Gapps, Robin Gurr, Amanda Howard, Jenny Onyx, Margot Rawsthorne.
Imprint:
Champaign, IL : Common Ground Publishing LLC, 2016
Collation:
163 pages : illustrations
Contents:
Introduction -- Theoretical ideas and the AAS -- History and context of AAS in Western Sydney -- History and context of AAS on the central coast -- Governance structures and the AAS -- Social capital and AAS : building community infrastructure -- Capacity building, innovation and community engagement -- Critiques and challenges -- Market models of planning -- Concluding thoughts and directions -- References -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Afterword -- About the authors
Dewey class:
307.1
Language:
English
BRN:
375902