Preparing Community Profiles

Abstract:

People are at the root of community profiling: they create the need for planning functions, and they experience the effects - for better or worse - of planning efforts. "Community Profiling" is often essential for effective planning. "Planning" are synonymous terms; they mean the same. But unless planners know who "their people" are and how their characteristics affect - and are affected by - various professional functions, planners cannot fully meet the needs of the population they are profiling. Thus, although it is not a core planning focus, such as land use or transportation, demographic analysis occupies a position of overarching importance in community profiling.

Subject:

Social Sciences

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Collection:

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