The Regional Imperative

The Regional Imperative
Author: Urlan A. Wannop
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136037446

Based on cases and interviews in Britain, Europe and the United States, this book explains the recurrence of regional planning and of initiatives in regional governance, in a wide range of advanced industrial countries. Providing an analysis of the nature of regional planning and governance, the book traces the development of regional planning and the institutions associated with it. It also looks at the way that regions have been changing their form under pressure from economic and political developments and examines how regional planning and governance has responded, comparing experience in the UK, the rest of Europe and the US. In concluding that regionalism is an imperative feature of politics in most countries, associated with almost any of the variety of forms of governance, the author offers a major appraisal of the significance of regional planning in an intemational context

Contemporary Issues in Regional Planning

Contemporary Issues in Regional Planning
Author: John Glasson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351755900

This title was first published in 2002: Regional planning and government in the UK is undergoing a period of tremendous activity, with a wide range of new policies, innovative techniques and experiments being tested. This volume provides an overview of developments, describing and analyzing the legislative, political and economic contexts within which changes are occurring, and assessing the continuing difficulties that face planners and others operating in the new arrangements for regional planning

Rationalities of Planning

Rationalities of Planning
Author: Jonathan Murdoch
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351906747

Placing a particular focus on the provision of new housing in suburban and rural areas of Southern England, this book explores how the state seeks to adjudicate conflicts around development and conservation.

Town and Country Planning in the UK

Town and Country Planning in the UK
Author: Barry Cullingworth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2006-10-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134246099

This revised fourteenth edition reinforces this title's reputation as the bible of British planning. It provides a through explanation of planning processes including the institutions involved, tools, systems, policies and changes to land use.

Planning in the UK

Planning in the UK
Author: Andy Thornley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 135173475X

This title was first published in 2003:The advent of the Labour government in 1997 provoked major change in the political landscape of the UK. Priorities changed and different themes moved to the top of the agenda such as local democracy, community, transparency, sustainability and co-ordinated or 'joined-up' thinking. Many of the new priorities, such as community empowerment, involved a reappraisal of the purpose and procedures of planning, while others changed the legislative and institutional frame within which planning operated. This indispensable volume traces and analyzes the implications for planning created by this political shift. Presenting an overview of the general debates on contemporary UK planning, the book proceeds to identify four major areas as key themes for planning in the third millennium. These are: the new institutional context; ensuring social inclusion and participation; promoting sustainability; and the debate over building at higher densities on Brownfield sites. Illustrated with in-depth case studies, the book provides a timely and important examination of the current state of planning in the UK and suggests best-case scenarios for the future.

Planning in Britain

Planning in Britain
Author: Andrew Gilg
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2005-04-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1847871275

This accessible textbook offers the first critical introduction to the UK′s urban and rural planning policy. Andrew Gilg explains and evaluates policy development at each of the key stages: · Objectives: what is the aim of planning in the UK? · Methods: how appropriate is UK planning legislation? · Procedures: how effective are the planning organizations and processes? · Impacts: to what extent have planning policies addressed planning problems? Teaching devices and case studies are used throughout to illustrate the planning process. The text concludes with a discussion of the measurement of the success or failure of planning practices. Planning in Britain will be essential reading for all planning students, as well as geographers and land economists studying land use planning.

The Planning Polity

The Planning Polity
Author: Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2005-06-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134447906

Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since the early 1990s, and provides an in-depth and revealing assessment of both the Major and Blair governments' terms of office. The book will prove to be an invaluable guide to the British planning system today and the political demands on it. Students and activists within urban and regional studies, planning, political science and government, environmental studies, urban and rural geography, development, surveying and planning, will all find the book to be an essential companion to their work.

British Planning Policy in Transition

British Planning Policy in Transition
Author: Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135365636

First Published in 1995. This book aims to consider the statutory planning policy system in Britain at the present time (1995) and predominantly takes as a starting point the development of the current processes in the period since 1989–90. The choice of time period for the study is deliberate and has been governed by two main issues. First, it coincides with the publication in 1989 of a government White Paper on the future of development plans. This paper had immense implications for the statutory planning system and effectively precipitated a new era for the future framework of planning policy. Secondly, 1990 marks the end of Margaret Thatcher’s period as Prime Minister and, since we are discussing British planning policy within the context of changing political climates, it is appropriate to assess the statutory planning process under John Major’s administration. The resultant essays which have been assembled therefore take the planning policy changes of the last five years as the focus of study and provide a context within which an in-depth analysis of inter-governmental planning relations may occur.