INTEGRATING COMMUNITY-DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN-PLANNING IN WESTERN-AUSTRALIA

''Community'' is a dynamic concept that is always developing, declinin g or changing in some way. A ''sense of community'' is a noun. It is s omething that can be possessed, achieved and marketed. It is a static concept that lends itself to design solutions and physical determinism . Urban planners, working in an achievement-oriented culture, are part icularly prone to perceiving community in design terms. A reappraisal of community results in a questioning of urban planning as currently u ndertaken. These are the first steps towards more humane planning proc esses.