Course overview
The aim of this course is to provide students with theories, evidence, concepts and skills that can be used to establish goals and strategies in supporting individual and community well being in existing neighbourhoods or proposed residential developments, framed by relevant land use planning, development assessment or other statutory processes. As such the concepts and skills could be considered to be helping to mediate the pace and scale of urbanisation, commonly referred to as growth management, and to help address emerging threats to wellbeing associated with economic and other issues. In this course social planning as a set of tools and values is understood to be either mandatory or voluntary under the following circumstance when:
• identifying and reporting the intended and unintended social impacts of land use/development policy and decisions
• determining current and anticipated human service and social infrastructure facilities for an existing community and or geographical area and preparing an implementation plan
• developing plans for specific population groups at a given area - e.g. people with disabilities, older people, adolescents
• undertaking master planning for proposed communities
- Social and community planning: Introduction
- Space, place, difference and diversity
- Poverty, inequality, social exclusion and inclusion in the spatial context
- Stigma, location and the other
- Insurgent planning
- Urban planning and public health
- Indigenous communities, race and racism
- Gender and planning
- Planning for sea level rise in Australian coastal communities
- The forms of social capital
- The risk society
Course learning outcomes
- Apply contemporary social theory to the social stratification dynamics in Australian society
- Analyse social issues and social trends in the context of patterns of urbanisation in Australian
- Critique social plans and social policy formation at national, state and local levels
- Utilise indicators such as those of community disadvantage and community strength to underpin local level social planning