Chapter 1 (pdf available here) is the introduction to The Comprehensive Plan: Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Communities for the 21st Century (Rouse and Piro 2022). It covers critical global challenges that the comprehensive plan can help communities address; sustainability, resilience, and equity as overarching themes of the book; a systems approach to planning; and a brief history of the comprehensive plan, culminating in the Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places developed by the American Planning Association. The full book can be ordered from the Routledge website.
by David Rouse