Talk:Community development planning

Regarding Articles for Deletion Additional Discussion from May 2018

I am one government planner with two editions on hand of the "Green Book", the authoritative of which the first edition appeared in 1941. Each edition of the reference was published for the Institute for Training in Municipal Administration by the International City Managers' Association, along with sister volumes on public municipal financing. It is authoritative and has broadly collected the state of knowledge in the field of urban planning. It uniquely provides the basis of most American planning education programs. The fourth edition, 1968, devoted its eleventh chapter to the third of three special approaches to urban planning, which were Ch. 9, City Design and City Appearance, Ch. 10 Quantitative Methods in Urban Planning, and Ch. 11 Social Welfare Planning. It correctly identified the tensions between traditional administrative or comprehensive "rightists" and the "leftwing" social and activist planners, which today generally cooperate to help balance the various conflicts between social equity, economic development, environmental protection and security/safety provisioning which triangulate sustainable communities between them. The methodologies in wide use today which support bottom-up community-driven planning as fact-driven expedience or "muddling through", rather than the former physically deterministic, principles and practices were identified as adjustments undergoing change in the 1968 fourth edition of the Green Book. This was of course just before the establishment of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development with its focus on formula-driven entitlement block grants to local and state governments under the broad national objective to assist areas suffering lagging tax bases with majority occupants who experienced incomes at or below 80% of the area median. The youthful field of community development was established in the early 1970s with great enthusiasm, and like any new field after forty years has substantially professionalized. The Office of Community Planning and Development (HUD CPD) was launched by this reform and maintains oversight of the U.S. program to this day. Community planning, community development, and combinations of these have been sited within local and state governments across the United States now for over forty years. The discipline supports programs as diverse as meals-on-wheels to seniors and disabled persons, establishing service to populations underserved by road, bridge, water, sewer, recreational, educational, transit and protective services infrastructure, stimulating economic development within job-distressed areas and populations, working to sustain housing affordability and to humanely reduce homelessness, as well as directly rehabilitating and indirectly stimulating both private and public housing with reasonable transportation costs and options, and providing further essential nexxus to historic preservation, archaeological studies, native tribal interests, fair housing testing and enforcement, special needs supports for the mentally ill, AIDS sufferers, and sheltering women and children from abuse, enhancing support of public sanitation and health, libraries and community parks and recreation facilities and police and fire services, and lessening environmental impacts upon and from the human population and natural flows which variously sustain and threaten it. The endeavor to reduce dependency and increase self- and social-support, to increase lifetime learning and income of individuals, to reduce mortality and morbidity, to engage the less able and the aged as useful social interactors, to encourage widespread entrepreneurship, to provide sufficient monetary and psychological support for those who cannot provide for themselves, to improve both effective and economical social services, and to enlarge the scope of individual and small-group self-determination in decision-making and local actions all date back at least to . If "community planning" seems to some only a Wikinotable buzzword, it is one with a long pedigree, with a considerable number of urban and planning theorists and practitioners who range from libertarian to communitarian but who inform and implement within the central political decisions of sitting powers, and with very many billions of dollars of prior and future public expenditure riding upon it. It deserves a wide section within any wiki project concerning public planning and development. I am open to where the Wiki community wishes this topic to reside, but in no way do I wish to delete the subject. Thank you kindly, Paulsuckow (talk) 02:13, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Paulsuckow, I have moved your additional discussion on the articles for deletion on this article Community development planning because of the directions under the Afd process located at WP:AFD.

That being said I also want to directly respond to the explanation of your opposition to delete this article. First and foremost WP:ISNOT a random collection of entries without rhyme or reason. In fact we have guidelines that help us as editors understand what makes a good article. Articles should be WP:notable and have WP:reliable references. The reason I submitted this article for deletion, or, perhaps, merger is that it has one reference. It also has a poor explanation of what CDP is. Wikipedia of course is an encyclopedia, not a handbook from the International City/County Management Association. For that matter the ICMA is not authoritative on the subject of urban planning. ICMA as you should know is the local government management professional association. In this case the most authoritative subject matter would from planning professional organizations such as the American Planning Association or the Royal Town Planning Institute. Finally, as you may know, urban planning is laden with numerous buzz words that the rest of society may or may not understand or agree with. Wikipedia is not WP:ISNOT an anthology or thesaurus of every planning term. For that reason it is more appropriate to explain that community development is a part of the professional field of urban planning, a specialty performed by urban planners. Having a separate article describing the planning for community development may be redundant as we already have an article on urban planning. Another option would be to simply redirect community development planning to urban planning. Randomeditor1000 (talk) 18:46, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

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Wiki Education assignment: Global Poverty and Practice

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2023 and 19 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Liagabrielafp (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Kayleegmorgan.

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