1st Edition

Town Planning into the 21st Century

Edited By Andy Blowers, Bob Evans Copyright 1998
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium. Leading experts outline the changing context for land use and environmental policy in Britain and explain why the existing processes and profession of town planning are likely to be unable to provide... Read more
Chapter 1 From Town Planning to Environmental Planning, Bob Evans; Chapter 2 Sustainability: the New Challenge, Richard Cowell, Susan Owens; Chapter 3 Environmental Planning for Sustainable Development, Andrew Blowers; Chapter 4 Planning, Professionalism and Sustainability, Bob Evans, Yvonne Rydin; Chapter 5 Planning in the Future or Planning of the Future?, Eric Reade; Chapter 6 Can Town Planning be for People Rather than Property?, Bob Colenutt; Chapter 7 The View From London Centre, Peter Hall; Chapter 8 Town Planning into the 21st Century, Cliff Hague; Chapter 9 Society and Sustainability, Andrew Blowers;

Biography

Andrew Blowers is Professor of Social Sciences (Planning) at the Open University,
Bob Evans is Head of Geography at South Bank University.

"Five hundred words is far too few to describe the individual contributions to this book, but I urge anyone in the business of planning or training planners to read and take note of the book's potentially optimistic and pragmatic future for planning" Environmental Planning and Management 41 (4) 98