Community Planner

With the rapid urbanization and the transformation of urban planning and construction, community planning has become a new tool for urban regeneration. In response to the shortage of professional support of urban planning and design at the community level, the experiments of community planning have sprung out in recent years in a number of Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Wuhan leading to the growth of community planners. Community planners from multiple disciplines play their role in different ways, including full-time, half-time, or non-profit. They help local government better implement urban planning regulations in constructions and advocate participatory planning among local residents to better meet their actual demands, so as to promote the comprehensive and sustainable development of communities.