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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158865703321

Titolo

Localism and neighbourhood planning : power to the people? / / edited by Sue Brownill and Quintin Bradley [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-4473-2952-X

1-4473-2954-6

1-4473-2950-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Policy Press scholarship online

Classificazione

AR 27500

Disciplina

307.12

Soggetti

Neighborhood planning

Community life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of photographs -- Editors’ acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Understanding and characterising neighbourhood planning -- Neighbourhood planning and the purposes and practices of localism -- Neighbourhoods, communities and the local scale -- Neighbourhood planning and the spatial practices of localism -- The uneven geographies of neighbourhood planning in England -- Experiences, contestations and debates -- Developing a neighbourhood plan: stories from ‘community-led’ planning pathfinders -- Voices from the neighbourhood: stories from the participants in neighbourhood plans and the professionals working with them -- Participation and conflict in the formation of neighbourhood areas and forums in ‘super-diverse’ cities -- Assembling neighbourhoods: topologies of power and the reshaping of planning -- A passion for place: the emotional identifications and empowerment of neighbourhood planning -- International comparisons in community planning -- Community-based planning and localism in the devolved UK -- Citizen participation: an essential lever for urban transformation in France? -- Localism and neighbourhood planning in Australian public policy and governance -- The many lives of neighbourhood planning in the US: much ado about



something? -- Reflections and conclusions -- Reflections on neighbourhood planning: towards a progressive localism -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Governments around the world are seeing the locality as a key arena for effecting changes in governance, restructuring state/civil society relations and achieving sustainable growth. This book critically analyses this shift towards localism in planning through exploring neighbourhood planning; one of the fastest growing, most popular and most contentious contemporary planning initiatives. Bringing together original empirical research with critical perspectives on governance and planning, the book engages with broader debates on the purposes of planning, the construction of active citizenship, the uneven geographies of localism and the extent to which power is actually being devolved. Setting this within an international context with cases from the US, Australia and France, the book reflects on the possibilities for the emergence of a more progressive form of localism.