London's Green Belt: Containment in Practice

Developed form a major research report for the Department of the Environment, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the problems experienced when the the green belt restraint was implemented around London. Attitudes to land-use planning changed rapidly: planning powers devolved from counties to districts: and regional planning was largely dismantled. This book fills a major gap in the literature by critically examinig the Metropolitan Green Belt.

This book was first published in 1983.