The Community Architect Network (CAN), with support from ACHR, has produced a handbook entitled ‘Comprehensive site planning: Transform community to better living place for all’. It is one in a series of ACHR ‘Handbooks for Housing By People’, and provides useful resources for planners, architects and urbanists interested in community-based approaches to practice and education.
Please click HERE to download the handbook (pdf format, 7.8 MB).
An extract from the Handbook’s Introduction:
This book is about the learning processes and experiences that explore and broaden the meaning of “Home” and “Community”. We wrote it to share the inspiration we found when working with and learning from people who shared their common dream the simplest dream of having a home and living in a good community they developed together.
The ideas and experience shared in this book seek to elaborate an approach of working processes through various cases, the outcomes of creating a home and a community, and the creation of a culture of living together within the community, by dialogue, planning, and doing. Through the site planning projects in housing development, these experiences not only illustrate the full process, starting from surveying to physical construction, but also the process of creating the opportunity and environment among the people and community to empower themselves. Every implementation process is a transformation stage for people to create a culture of living together, from passiveness to become more active, mutually building it together.
