1st Edition

Effective Practice in Spatial Planning

By Janice Morphet Copyright 2011
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

After years of being regarded as a regulatory tool, spatial planning is now a key agent in delivering better places for the future. Dealing with the role of spatial planning in major change such as urban extensions or redevelopment, this book asks how it can deliver at the local level. Setting out the new local governance within which spatial planning now operates and identifying the... Read more

Preface  1. What is Spatial Planning?  2. The Local Governance Context of English Spatial Planning  3. The English Spatial Planning System  4. The Evidence Base of Spatial Planning  5. Community Involvement in Spatial Planning  6. Making Places – Delivery Through Spatial Planning  7. Taking an Integrated Approach to Local Spatial Delivery  8. Managing Spatial Planning  9. Regional and Sub-regional Spatial Planning  10. Spatial Planning in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland  11. Spatial Planning in Europe, North America and Australia  12. Effective Spatial Planning

Biography

Janice Morphet is a Visiting Professor at The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. She is also a member of the Planning Committee of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Janice spends much of her time as an academic and practitioner working on spatial planning and its interrelationships with local governance.

"The book's main strength is its clearly structured description of the outworking of the post-2004 change in emphasis in English planning... the book delivers justification for the claim that spatial planning is significantly different from the mode of urban planning that immediately preceded it." - Chris Webster, University of Hong Kong