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Social planning

Here are entered works on systematic procedures for achieving social goals and managing available resources to attain social change. Works on the perspectives, activities, and principles that guide how a society regulates the relationships among individuals, groups, communities, and institutions and the distribution of resources are entered under Social policy.

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• Planning

• Social planning -- Israel
• Social planning -- United States
• Community development

• Social development planning

• Transnational Social Policies: The New Development Challenges of Globalization, ed. by Daniel A. Morales-Gómez (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Partners for Change: How U.S.-Israel Cooperation Can benefit America (c1993), by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard (HTML at Jewish Virtual Library)

• Partners for Change: How U.S.-Israel Cooperation Can benefit America (c1993), by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard (HTML at Jewish Virtual Library)

• Keystone Sector Identification: A Graph Theory-Social Network Analysis Approach (c2000), by Maureen Kilkenny and Laura Nalbarte (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Cooperating with Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards with Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Communities (1998), ed. by Raymond J. Burby (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color (Berkeley and Los Angeles: BerkeleyLaw, c2010), ed. by Christopher F. Edley and Jorge Ruiz-de-Velasco (PDF with commentary at boysandmenofcolor.org)
• Living Homes for Cultural Expression: North American Native Perspectives on Creating Community Museums (c2006), ed. by Karen Coody Cooper and Nicolasa I. Sandoval (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)
• People Power: What Communities Are Doing to Counter Inflation (ca. 1980), by U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs, Consumer Information Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Community Development Block Grant Program: Guide to National Objectives and Eligible Activities for Entitlement Communities (updated edition, 1998), by United States Office of Community Planning and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)

• Community and Quality of Life: Data Needs for Informed Decision Making (2002), by National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A Cultural District for Downtown Atlanta (Atlanta: Rearch Atlanta, c2000), by Arthur C. Brooks and Roland Kushner (page images at GSU)

• The Feasibility and Value of Broadband Communications in Rural Areas: A Preliminary Evaluation (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, contrib. by William Mills, Gretchen Kolsrud, and Lucia Turnbull (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012), by Andrew Herscher (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• An Introduction to Community Development: A Guidebook for Local Leaders (Helena: Development Bureau of the Montana Department of Commerce, 1982), by Lawrence Gallagher and Montana Department of Commerce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy (Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, c2020), ed. by Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler, and Paul Schadewald (HTML with commentary at University of Cincinnati Press)
• Community Development: An Introduction to CD for Village Workers (reprinted from Agency for International Development training materials; Columbia, MO: Center for Community Development, University of Missouri, 1963), by Donald L. Beran, ed. by Jean Ogden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, c2014), ed. by Pelle Ehn, Elisabet M Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• An Introduction to Community Development: A Guidebook for Local Leaders (Helena: Development Bureau of the Montana Department of Commerce, 1982), by Lawrence Gallagher and Montana Department of Commerce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Grassroots Development: The African Development Foundation (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• African Youth on the Information Highway: Participation and Leadership in Community Development, ed. by Osita Ogbu and Paschal Mihyo (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Journal of Social Development in Africa (partial serial archives)

• Journal of Rural and Community Development (2005-) (full serial archives)

• Journal of Rural and Community Development (2005-) (full serial archives)

• Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Jean C. Oi (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• China's New Socialist Countryside: Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, c2014), by Russell Harwood (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Finance for Food: Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance (Heidelberg et al.: Springer Open, c2014), ed. by Doris Köhn (PDF files at SpringerLink)

• Conservation and Development in Northern Thailand, ed. by Jack D. Ives, Sanga Sbhasri, and Pisit Voraurai (HTML at UNU Press)

• Community-Led Regeneration: A Toolkit for Residents and Planners (London: UCL Press, c2020), by Pablo Sendra and Daniel Fitzpatrick
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • HTML and PDF files at Project Muse

• Evaluation Report on Working of Community Projects and N.E.S. Blocks, by India Planning Commission Programme Evaluation Organisation (partial serial archives)

• Biodiesel in India: Value Chain Organisation and Policy Options For Rural Development (2009), by Tilman Altenburg, Hildegard Dietz, Matthias Hahl, Nikos Nikolidakis, Christina Rosendahl, and Kathrin Seelige (PDF in Germany)

• African Successes: Four Public Managers of Kenyan Rural Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David K. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique (in English and Portuguese; London: University College London Press, 2015), by Vanesa Castán Broto, Jonathan Ensor, Emily Boyd, Charlotte Allen, Carlos Seventine, and Domingos Augusto Macucule
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Journal of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (partial serial archives)

• Journal of Rural and Community Development (2005-) (full serial archives)
• Kiwanis Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Journal of Rural and Community Development (2005-) (full serial archives)
• Spore: Bimonthly Bulletin of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information (partial serial archives)

• Spatial Analysis for Regional Development: A Case Study in the Bicol River Basin of the Philippines, by Dennis A. Rondinelli (HTML at UNU Press)

• Masters of Their Own Destiny: The Story of the Antigonish Movement of Adult Education Through Economic Cooperation (with revised statistics; New York et al.: Harper and Row., ca. 1960), by Moses Coady (PDF at stfx.ca)
• Masters of Their Own Destiny: The Story of the Antigonish Movement of Adult Education Through Economic Cooperation (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1939), by Moses Coady (page images at stfx.ca)

• The One to Watch: Radio, New ICTs and Interactivity (2003), ed. by Bruce Girard (PDF and HTML at comunica.org)
• A Passion for Radio: Radio Waves and Community (electronic edition, c2001), ed. by Bruce Girard (PDF at comunica.org)

• A Passion for Radio: Radio Waves and Community (electronic edition, c2001), ed. by Bruce Girard (PDF at comunica.org)

• Rural Development: Putting the Last First (London et al.: Longman, c1983), by Robert Chambers (PDF at Institute of Development Studies)

• Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), ed. by Francisco J. Pichón, Jorge E. Uquillas, and John Frechione (searchable page images ast Pitt)

• Bedouins, Wealth, and Change: A Study of Rural Development in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman, by Rainer Cordes and Fred Scholz (HTML at UNU Press)

• Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand (Honolulu: Pub. for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii, ca. 1978), ed. by Peter Kunstadter, E. C. Chapman, and Sanga Sabhasri (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Bedouins, Wealth, and Change: A Study of Rural Development in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman, by Rainer Cordes and Fred Scholz (HTML at UNU Press)

• Socioeconomic Renovation in Viet Nam: The Origin, Evolution, and Impact of Doi Moi, ed. by Peter Boothroyd and Pham Xuan Nam (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

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