1st Edition

The Green Belt, Housing Crises and Planning Systems

By Charles Edward Goode Copyright 2025
248 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England. It is one of the most well-known strategies internationally, with similar growth restraint policies having been adopted in a diverse range of cities around the world, such as Portland, Medellin and Bangkok. Despite this, it is often argued that Green Belts contribute to wider inequitable outcomes in society.... Read more

List of figures and tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Researching the Green Belt

Chapter 3: The history of the Green Belt

Chapter 4: The form and function of the Green Belt and an evaluation of its effectiveness

Chapter 5: Power and interest groups in planning

Chapter 6: The Green Belt, the housing crisis and policy reform

Chapter 7: Conceptualising community support for the Green Belt and opposition to housebuilding

Chapter 8: Power, politics and planning

Chapter 9: The geography and governance of the Green Belt

Chapter 10: Overarching implications for planning theory and practice

References

Index

Biography

Charles Edward Goode is an Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a geographer and trained planner with research and teaching interests in strategic planning and regional governance, community involvement, housing supply/affordability and planning history.