The Savvy Planner is a valuable resource for professional and lay planners working for community change, providing insights into process, partnerships, and securing commitments. It addresses crucial topics such as data gathering, team building, opposition amongst stakeholders, and implementation. By learning to spot factors and conditions that allow communities to overcome inertia and move ahead, planners can help create positive change in their communities. Format: Paperback / softback Publication date: 01 January 2021 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd The Savvy Planner is a comprehensive and empowering handbook for professional and lay planners working towards community change. It provides valuable insights into the process, partnerships, and securing commitments necessary for successful planning. The book addresses crucial topics such as gathering key data and information, building teams and managing change, opposition amongst stakeholders, and implementing a plan. It highlights the importance of community engagement in planning and how it can affect whether change is achieved. The Savvy Planner offers new ways to approach planning and opens minds to the promise planning offers our communities and our future. It is essential reading for community planners, activists, policy makers, development leaders, and students preparing for these roles. ISBN-13: 9781138940468
