Land Use Planning and the Mediation of Urban Change The British Planning System in Practice

This book, originally published in 1988, provides an account of an analysis of British planning in practice, as observed through empirical research including a range of case studies. It shows how the procedures of the system have been used in the political processes through which policies come to be defined and implemented, and related these to the interests in land and environmental issues generated by urban and regional change. Its distinctive contribution lies in the linking of the procedures and practices of planning to the political economy of urban development, and in the way empirical evidence and theoretical argument are interlaced to advance our understanding of planning as a political process.

1. Planning in practice: an approach to analysis; 2. Policies, instruments and institutional arrangements; 3. Civic pride and private capital: land use planning in the city centre; 4. The inner city and land use planning; 5. Growth management on the urban fringe; 6. Industry and environment in open land; 7. Interests in land and planning in action; 8. Adapting the instruments of planning intervention; 9. Institutional arrangements as arenas for interest mediation; 10. Policy processes in land use planning; 11. Continuity and change in the planning system; Appendix.

This book, originally published in 1988, provides an account of an analysis of British planning in practice, as observed through empirical research including a range of case studies. Its distinctive contribution lies in the linking of the procedures and practices of planning to the political economy of urban development, and in the way empirical evidence and theoretical argument are interlaced to advance our understanding of planning as a political process.