Social planning involves the design, delivery and assessment of public / private organizations and programs aimed to empower citizens to enhance their quality of life. The fundamental tenets of social planning include:
The School of Planning conducts cutting-edge research in these fields. Below are representative papers from researchers in this area.
L.C. Johnson, J. Andrey and S. Shaw, 2007. Mr. Dithers Comes to Dinner: Telework and the Merging of Women’s Work and Home Domains in Canada, Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 141–161
Shifting the workplace from office into the home environment can pose challenges for both work and non-work domains. Case study research on teleworking employees of a Canadian financial sector firm examines coping mechanisms teleworkers use to separate these two domains.
