1st Edition

Spatial Planning and the New Localism

Edited By Graham Haughton, Philip Allmendinger Copyright 2014
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

This book looks at the transition from New Labour’s ‘Spatial Planning’ approach to the Coalition Government’s preferred ‘Localism’ approach. Localism we are told will liberate local planners from the heavy hand of central government and allow planning to flourish at the local level. Alternatively, austerity cuts nationally mean planning faces cuts. In just two years the machinery of regional... Read more

1. Introduction: Spatial Planning and the New Localism  2. The Evolution and Trajectories of English Spatial Governance: ‘Neoliberal’ Episodes in Planning  3. The Greenest Government Ever? Planning and Sustainability in England after the May 2010 Elections  4. The New Contractualism, the Privatization of the Welfare State, and the Barriers to Open Source Planning  5. Towards Post-political Consensus in Urban Policy? Localism and the Emerging Agenda for Regeneration Under the Cameron Government  6. The Delusion of Strategic Spatial Planning: What’s Left After the Labour Government’s English Regional Experiment?  7. Rescaling of Planning and Its Interface with Economic Development  8. The Remodeling of Decision Making on Major Infrastructure in Britain  9. Neo-liberalization Processes and Spatial Planning in France, Germany, and the Netherlands: An Exploration  10. Afterword: Localism, Austerity and Planning  

Biography

Graham Haughton is Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Manchester.

Phil Allmendinger of Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge.

"[T]he book represents an excellent analysis of how the English planning system has changed since 2010 - or, in many ways, not changed at all." - John Sturzaker, University of Liverpool, UK