Meeting the challenge of learning from what works in the development of sustainable communities

The following reports on the research carried out to meet the challenge of learning from what works in the development of sustainable communities and ‘close the gap’ in what Egan (2004) calls the generic skills of socially-inclusive visioning. Those inclusive-visioning skills referred to as being of ‘first order’ priority for the reason they are seen as key in raising the competencies of the core occupations (urban planners, property developers and architectural designers) responsible for sustaining the development of communities.