Social Planning

Sociology and planning, both valuable to society, are different: sociology provides scientific understanding of society; while democratic planning utilizes community values through policy goals for social and physical development. Though valuable together, these fields involve two kinds of careers with divergent cultures and role orientations, seldom included or combined in a single life experience.

Social theorists, social scientists or sociologists who have linked the subjects of sociology or social science, and planning, in individual lives are few and far between. Rarer still are sociologists who in their work and in their careers have functioned also -- professionally and intellectually -- as planners, in the areas of theory, policy and/or action. Their appearance in the history of sociology may be regarded as a minor phenomenon. - comm-org.utoledo.edu/si/jenkins.htm

Cyburbia - The Urban Planning Portal.- cyburbia.org/

Social Policy Research Centre - University of New South Wales - The Social Welfare Research Centre was established in January 1980 on the basis of a five-year Agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the University of New South Wales. Funding for the Centre is provided under the Agreement by the Commonwealth through the Department of Social Security. The Centre operates as an independent unit of the University and undertakes research into a wide range of social policy issues.

The findings of this research are made available to specialist audiences and the general public through publications, seminars and conference presentations. - sprc.unsw.edu.au/

Planning
The Planning offers news and analyses of events in planning (including suburban, rural, and small town planning, environmental planning, neighborhood revitalization, economic development, social planning, and urban design. - casa.ucl.ac.uk/planning/olp.htm

Planning Perspectives
The Planning Perspectives is an international journal the explores planning and the environment, publishing historical and prospective articles on the planning process and implementation. - tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02665433.html

Progress in Planning
The Progress in Planning explores advances in planning from an interdisciplinary perpsective, covering a wide range of topics including land use, design and behavior, spatial planning, environmental issues and urban form. - elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/4/0/9/show/topnav.htt?menu=gen

Urban Studies
The Urban Studies explores advances and issues in urban and regional planning, design and analysis drawing on a number of disciplines including geography, economics, sociology and public policy. - tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/00420980.html

Geographical Journal
The Geographical Journal is the publication of the Royal Geographical Society publishing geographical research into cultures, economies and environments. - rgs.org/templ.php?page=8publjou

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
The Journal of Environmental Planning and Management explores integrated approaches planning and management of the environment including applied research, the application of new approaches and techniques, and the evaluation of policy and practice. - tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/09640568.html

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
The Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning provides a forum for the critical analysis of environmental policy and planning from a political, social, economic, legal, cultural, aesthetic or planning perspective - tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1523908x.html

Journal of the American Planning Association
The Journal of the American Planning Association publishes current research on planning and urban development including cutting-edge research with practical application along with an archive of full text and graphics of Journal articles. - - .japa.pdx.edu/ - planning.org/japa/

Journal of Urban Affairs
The Journal of Urban Affairs is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to articles that address contemporary urban issues and is directed toward an audience that includes practitioners, policy makers, scholars, and students. - udel.edu/uaa/journal.html

Journal of Urban Design
The Journal of Urban Design explores issues, challenges and opportunities in the field of urban design and its impact on the quality of the built environment from an interdisciplinary perspective. - tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/13574809.html

Journal of Urban Economics
The Journal of Urban Economics publishes papers of great scholarly merit on a wide range of topics and employing a wide range of approaches to urban economics. - gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/j/msg02337.html

Journal of Urban Planning and Development
The Journal of Urban Planning and Development explores the the application of civil engineering to urban planning aspects such as area-wide transportation, the coordination of planning and programming of public works and utilities, and the development and redevelopment of urban areas. - ojps.aip.org/upo/?jsessionid=2169921056959039682

Land Degradation & Development
The Land Degradation & Development is devoted to Land Degradation, Promotion of Ecological Sustainability, Sustainable Land Management, Socioeconomic Implications for Sustainability and Development - interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1085-3278/

Landscape and Urban Planning
The Landscape and Urban Planning explores the relationships among landscape, planning and urban design from an interdisciplinary approach, looking at how landscape decisions are made and how they impact the market. - elsevier.nl/locate/landurbplan

Our Planet
The Our Planet publishes the United Nations Environment Programme s flagship magazine for environmentally sustainable development. - ourplanet.com/

Planning Practice & Research
The Planning Practice & Research explores various dimensions of planning with increasing attention on the distinctive features of planning practice and policy in different countries. - .tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/02697459.html

Planning Theory and Practice
The Planning Theory and Practice encourages development of theory and practice in spatial planning, and encourages the development of a spatial dimension in other areas of public policy. - tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/14649357.html

Economics of Planning
The Economics of Planning explores economic analysis and policy making for the development and integration of transition economies; of 2002, it incorporates`MOCT-MOST: Economic Policy in Transitional Economies. - kluweronline.com/issn/0013-0451/contents

Geographical Analysis
The Geographical Analysis publishes mathematical and nonmathematical articulations of geographical theory, and statements and discussions of the analytic paradigm. - ohiostatepress.org/journals/geoanal.htm

Journal of Architectural and Planning Research - archone.tamu.edu/Press/japr2.html

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design - .pion.co.uk/ep/epb/epb_current.html

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy - .pion.co.uk/ep/epc/epc_current.html

Environment and Planning D-Society & Space - .pion.co.uk/ep/epd/epd_current.html

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - URSP 673 - URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING PROGRAM
FALL, 2002 - COMMUNITY SOCIAL PLANNING
Instructor: Howell Baum, 1229 Architecture Building, 301-405-6792, hb36@umail.umd.edu

INTRODUCTION
This course introduces students to social planning as a perspective on society, an approach to planning, and a repertoire of methods for helping communities develop. The course's central purpose is to teach students how planners can take communities seriously.

Communities are social relations that matter; people interact with one another for purposes that are important to them. They share cultures, norms for appropriate behavior, and ways of acting. People identify with communities: they feel that what happens to communities happens to them, and vice versa. People who are members of a community may live near one another, as in a neighborhood, but they may not, and people who live near one another are not necessarily members of the same community.

The course looks at what it means to think about the development of a community as a social entity and to practice planning to promote a community's social development. Physical or economic planners generally define "community development" as an increase in money, employment, businesses, housing, or built structures in a geographic area. These may be worth while, but frequently planners advocate them without being clear what the "community" is or what it would require for its "development" as a community. For this reason, the course starts by examining how a community works as a social entity and what it would mean for this community to work better--that's what development is.

After discussing what community social development involves as a planning goal, the course looks at planning methods that can help a community develop. These include community organizing, asset-based community development, network-building, social programming, system change, and comprehensive community planning.

Flinders University - Undergraduate Courses 2001
Bachelor of Social Planning (BSocPg)
flinders.edu.au/calendar/vol2/2001/ug/BSocPlan.htm

INTRODUCTION
The Bachelor of Social Planning requires three years of full-time study (or equivalent part-time) and the honours program an additional year (or equivalent part-time). The course is offered by the Faculty of Social Sciences.

COURSE AIMS
The course is designed to prepare students for employment as social planners and social policy analysts within human service organisations and commercial companies. This preparation will include the development of knowledge and skills in areas of costing, planning and delivery of social services.

The fields of economics, social policy and human service planning are integrated within a single degree structure in order to promote an understanding of the intricate relationship between economic policy and social policy.

First Year ECON 1001
Introductory Macroeconomics

Introduction Microeconomics

Australian Politics: A Comparative Study

Methods of Social Planning 1A

Methods of Social Planning 1B

Introduction to Social Planning

Introduction to Sociology

Introduction to Social Analysis

Second Year ECON 2001
Macroeconomics

Microeconomics

ECON 2008
Managerial Economics

Australian Government and Public Policy

Demography

Social Policy through the Lifespan

Third Year SOAD 3001
Organisations, Professions and Service Systems

Access and Equity: Social Issues in Public Policy

Public Finance

Current Issues in Australian Economic Policy

Economic Theory

Project in Social Planning

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