1st Edition

New Labour and Planning From New Right to New Left

By Phil Allmendinger Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour. After a slow start in which Labour’s view of planning owed more to a neo-liberal, rolled back state model reminiscent of the New Right the Government began to appreciate that many of its wider objectives including economic development, climate change, democratic renewal, social justice... Read more

1. From New Right to New Left 2. New Labour and Planning 3. Understanding Planning under Labour 4. Planning and Urban Policy 5. Spatial Planning 6. Hitting the Target and Missing the Point 7. Development, Infrastructure and Land Taxation 8. Conclusions Bibliography

Biography

Phil Allmendinger is a Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Land Economy at Cambridge University, UK.

"This is a fascinating, well written, and in places pleasingly provocative, read which tells us as much about contemporary governance as about planning."Anne Marie Baylouny, Journal of Social Policy