The Planning Polity : Planning, Government and the Policy Process

• Superior document: RTPI Library Series
• VerfasserIn: Tewdwr-Jones, Mark.
• Author: Tewdwr-Jones, Mark.
• TeilnehmendeR: Tewdwr-Jones, Mark.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: RTPI Library Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 plannin

Table of Contents

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 'POWER TO THE PEOPLE'; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 A THEORETICAL CONTEXT OF PLANNING POLICY; CHAPTER 3 THE POLITICS OF PLANNING POLICY: the Major era; CHAPTER 4 THE POLITICS OF PLANNING POLICY: the Blair era; CHAPTER 5 NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL PLANNING POLICY RELATIONSHIPS; CHAPTER 6 NATIONAL CONSISTENCY IN THE PLANNING POLICY PROCESS; CHAPTER 7 REGIONAL CERTAINTY AND COMPATIBILITY IN THE PLANNING POLICY PROCESS; CHAPTER 8 LOCAL DISCRETION IN THE PLANNING POLICY PROCESS

CHAPTER 9 NATIONAL AGENDAS AND PLANNING POLICY VARIATION: Wales vs. EnglandCHAPTER 10 NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY AND DEVOLUTION IN WALES AFTER 1999; CHAPTER 11 DEVOLUTION AND PLANNING POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN SCOTLAND AFTER 1999; CHAPTER 12 PLANNING POLICY WITHIN NEW FORMS OF GOVERNANCE; CHAPTER 13 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; INDEX