1st Edition

Planning Major Infrastructure A Critical Analysis

By Tim Marshall Copyright 2013
320 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed?  What can we learn from the different ways countries manage these challenges, to inform better spatial planning and more intelligent political steering?   Case studies of the... Read more

Part 1: Framing Infrastructure and Planning  1. Introducing Infrastructure and "Infrastructuralism"  2. Infrastructure Industries and Infrastructure Government  3. Possible New Infrastructure: Generating the Need and Imagining the Form  4. Planning Major Infrasturcture – Strategies and Projects  Part 2: National Case Studies and the EU  5. The Netherlands  6. France  7. Spain  8. Germany  9. "Traditional" Planning for Major Infrastructure in the UK  10. New Approaches to Major Infrastructure Planning in the UK  Part 3: Conclusions  11. Conclusions

Biography

Tim Marshall is a Reader in Planning at the Department of Planning in Oxford Brookes University.  He is a planner with a mixed practice and academic career. Major interests include high level strategic planning at urban, regional and national levels. His past books include Transforming Barcelona and Regional Planning (with John Glasson).