New Report Released by the American Planning Association
A new monograph co-authored by Wayne Feiden, Director of the Center for Resilient Metro-Regions and lecturer of practice at the UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, was published by the American Planning Association.
PAS Report 607, "Strategic Planning for Communities and Organizations," is available at https://www.planning.org/publications/report/9292708/. This report is accessible for free for members of the American Planning Association.
"This PAS Report addresses the what, why, when, and how of strategic planning. Its purpose is to identify what strategic planning is, explain its applications for both community planning and organizational planning, and highlight its benefits; explore the equity considerations of strategic planning efforts; and help practitioners understand how to conduct successful strategic planning processes. It aims to provide guidance to practicing, emerging, and student planners who want to undertake this planning approach. The report explores strategic planning for both community change—the traditional community-facing plans that lead to direct change in the community—and organizational change, the internal process by which public and private agencies determine their mission, organizational structure, and operational strategies." (PAS Report 607).