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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348227003321

Autore

Tewdwr-Jones Mark

Titolo

The Planning Polity [[electronic resource] ] : Planning, Government and the Policy Process

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002

ISBN

1-134-44790-6

1-280-14103-4

0-203-98703-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

RTPI Library Series

Disciplina

307.120941

Soggetti

Great Britain

Planning

Political aspects

Regional planning

Regional planning - Great Britain

Regional planning - Environmental aspects - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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