1st Edition
Planning Practice Critical Perspectives from the UK
Planning Practice: Critical Perspectives from the UK provides the only comprehensive overview of contemporary planning practice in the UK. Drawing on contributions from leading researchers in the field, it examines the tools, contexts and outcomes of planning practice. Part I examines planning processes and tools, and the extent to which theory and practice diverge, covering plan-making, Development Management, planning gain, public engagement and place-making. Part II examines the changing contexts within which planning practice takes place, including privatisation and deregulation, devolution and multi-level governance, increased ethnic and social diversity, growing environmental concerns and the changing nature of commercial real estate. Part III focuses on how planning practice produces outcomes for the built environment in relation to housing, infrastructure, economic progress, public transport and regeneration. The book considers what it means to be a reflective practitioner in the modern planning system, the constraints and opportunities that planners face in their daily work, and the ethical and political challenges they must confront.
- Introduction: contexts and frameworks for contemporary planning practice
- Devolution and planning
- Plan-making: changing contexts, challenges and drivers
- Contemporary challenges in Development Management
- Challenges and emerging practices in development value capture
- Public participation and the declining significance of planning
- The design dimension of planning: making planning proactive again
- Private consultants, planning reform, and the marketization of local government finance
- Localism and neighbourhood planning
- The evolving intersection of planning and the commercial real estate market
- Planning for diversity in an era of social change
- Sustainable development and planning
- Planning for housing: the global challenges confronting local practice
- Planning for infrastructure
- Planning for economic progress
- Planning for public transport: applying European good practice to UK regions?
- Planning for the regeneration of towns and cities
- Conclusion: Beyond reflective, deliberative practice
John Tomaney and Jessica Ferm
John Tomaney and Claire Colomb
Part I: Practices of planning
Jessica Ferm
Ben Clifford
Patricia Canelas
Yasminah Beebeejaun
Matthew Carmona
Part II: Changing contexts for planning practice
Mike Raco
Elena Besussi
Tommaso Gabrieli and Nicola Livingstone
Claire Colomb and Mike Raco
Catalina Turcu
Part III: Planning in practice
Nick Gallent
John Tomaney, Peter O’Brien and Andy Pike
Jessica Ferm, Michael Edwards and Edward Jones
Iqbal Hamiduddin and Robin Hickman
Claudio de Magalhaães and Nikos Karadimitriou
Jessica Ferm and John Tomaney
Biography
Jessica Ferm is Lecturer in Planning and Urban Management and coordinator of the Bartlett School of Planning’s "Planning Practice" module. She is a practice-focused academic with research interests in the intersections between spatial planning and the economy. She is actively involved in planning in London. Prior to academia, she worked for 10 years in planning practice.
John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. His work focuses on the governance of local and regional development and spatial planning and the political, social and cultural foundations of regions. Prior to this post at UCL, he was Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University.
"Ferm and Tomaney take a comprehensive look at the nature of contemporary planning practice in the UK and, in doing so, fill a clear gap in the available literature. This book shows how practice is linked to theory, and presents implications of value not only to students but also to reflective practitioners seeking to overcome problems in a range of contexts." -John McCarthy, Associate Professor in Urban Studies, Heriot-Watt University, UK
"Planning in the UK is in a state of flux. Many of the features we have come to expect of planning have changed beyond all recognition in the last few years. The role planning performs, and the context within which it operates, requires a new in-depth review and evaluation. Planning Practice: Critical Perspectives from the UK, written by some of the most highly regarded researchers in the field, makes for essential reading for anyone interested in this changing and changeable landscape." -Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Professor of Town Planning and Director of Newcastle City Futures, Newcastle University, UK
"Planners face growing complexity, challenges, constraints and opportunities in the management of the built environment. Ferm, Tomaney and their colleagues at the Bartlett have produced a timely and much needed book that explores the dilemmas at the interface of practice and theory in contemporary planning." -Phil Allmendinger, Professor of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK