Description
Following on from Introducing Town Planning andImplementing Town Planning, this third volume in the series examines the scope and nature of modern town planning in greater depth. It investigates the theories and preoccupations which inform the current planning agenda, compares this with earlier objectives, and discusses likely future trends.
Written by a team of expert contributors under the general editorship of Clara Greed, the book begins with a review of town planning and then goes on to discuss the major themes in five parts:
- the economic context of town planning
- planning for housing
- planning for sustainability
- planning for city centres or decentralisation
- changing agendas and agencies
Within this contextualising framework the contributors investigate many of the current, and often conflicting, urban policy issues challenging the planning profession. Over and above a commitment to traditional, physical land use matters, planning practitioners nowadays must take on board new priorities, deriving from the environmental movement, the European Union, the economic climate, changing local authority structures, and legislative frameworks. The contributors discuss these new agendas, and demonstrate how they link to inner city regeneration, city centre management, sustainability issues, and wider social policy and urban governance questions.
This volume incorporates a more discursive and reflective approach to studying, and thus constitutes a valuable text for final year undergraduate and postgraduate courses in town planning, surveying, building, architecture, and housing, as well as RTPI, RICS, CIOH, CIOB, ASI, ISVA and RIBA courses. It will be of interest to a wider readership studying urban economics, urban sociology, social policy and urban geography, and to young professionals in both the public and private sector of the property world.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Part I: Introduction.
1. Town Planning Revisited.
Part II: The Economic Context of Town Planning.
2. The Market Economic Context.
3. Post War Economic Development.
4. Regenerating Buildings.
Part III: Planning for Housing.
5. Social Housing Provision.
6. Prospects for Owner Occupied Housing in the 1990s.
Part IV: Planning for Sustainability.
7. Planning for Sustainable Growth.
8. Minerals and the Environment.
Part V: Planning for City Centres or Decentralisation
9. Retailing Development: In or Out of Town.
10. City Centre Management.
Part VI: Changing Agendas and Agencies.
11. Policy Frontiers and Planning Appeals.
12. Urban Planning in a Pan European Context
13. Reconciling Theory and Practice. Bibliography
Index.
List of Figures.
List of Plates.
List of Tables
