Community Leisure and Recreation Planning

Ken Marriott operated a private leisure and recreation planning company from 1984 until 2016, and has authored or co-authored planning manuals and texts for all Australian state governments and the New Zealand government.John Tower is Honorary Research Fellow at Victoria University, Institute of Health and Sport, Australia and Manager of Research for a leisure consulting company. Katie McDonald is a doctoral student in the Institute of Health and Sport at Victoria University, Australia.

• 1. Introduction: Planning Community Leisure and Recreation Programs, Facilities and Services, 2. The Leisure and Recreation Planning Model, 3. Pre-Planning, 4. Socio-Economic Change and Demographics, 5. Assessing Opportunities for Leisure and Recreation, 6. Report Reviews: Scope and Purpose, 7. Assessing Needs and Aspirations, 8. Leisure and Recreation Participation, 9. Planning for Greenfield and Brownfield Sites and Natural Areas, 10. Alternate Leisure and Recreation Planning Approaches, 11. Preparing a Leisure and Recreation Plan, 12. Implementing, Monitoring and Evaluating a Plan, 13. Ensuring a Sound Future for Leisure and Recreation Planning

"[A book that] will become the "bible" for recreation planning in Australia. The collaboration between Kenneth Marriott and John Tower, two of the leading thinkers in recreation planning in Australia, has combined their extensive experience into one publication. This text should sit in every recreation planner’s publication portfolio, as it will in mine." – Neal Ames, Sport and Recreation Project Manager, Glenorchy City Council"A welcome contribution to the sparse literature on community leisure and recreation planning. … While the opening chapter offers brief discussions of theoretical concepts such as paradigms, ideologies and benefits, the overall emphasis is on the practical. The book will therefore be appreciated by planning students who wish to be informed about community leisure planning and leisure studies students interested in the practical challenges of planning." – A. J. Veal, University of Technology Sydney, World Leisure Journal