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Concern for more open, participative, devolved and integrated government has led many, including the UK Labour government, to re-examine the importance of place, space and territory. Applying an institutionalist approach, and deploying substantial original empirical evidence, this book makes a major contribution to understanding the emergence of more localised governance in England in the 1990s, with particular reference to the role of spatial planning systems.
List of contents
PART I: RESEARCHING PLANNING PRACTICE AND THEORY
Planning Systems and Territorial Governance
Constructing Accounts of Planning Practices: Theories and Concepts
PART II: PLANNING, GOVERNANCE AND SPATIAL STRATEGY
Planning and Governance in Three Localities
Cascading Numbers: Finding New Space for Housing
Jobs, Sites and Portfolio: Allocating Large Sites for Economic Development Purposes
Transport at a Metaphorical Crossroads: The Gradual Penetration of a Sustainable Development Discourse
Managing Waste: An Emerging Discourse in the Planning System?
PART III: THE DISCOURSES AND INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS OF THE PLANNING SYSTEM
Planning Discourses in Transition
The Policy Communities of Spatial Strategy-making: The Emergence of a Regional Corporatism?
PART IV: CONCLUSIONS: TOWARDS A POLITICS OF PLACE?
Spatial Regulation or Spatial Planning: The Emergence of a New Politics of Place?
About the author
GEOFF VIGAR is Lecturer in Planning, University of Newcastle.
PATSY HEALEY is Professor of Planning Theory, University of Newcastle.
ANGELA HULL is Senior Lecturer in Town Planning, University of Newcastle.
SIMIN DAVOUDI is Lecturer in Town Planning, University College London.
Summary
Concern for more open, participative, devolved and integrated government has led many, including the UK Labour government, to re-examine the importance of place, space and territory. Applying an institutionalist approach, and deploying substantial original empirical evidence, this book makes a major contribution to understanding the emergence of more localised governance in England in the 1990s, with particular reference to the role of spatial planning systems.
