Planning Practice: Critical Perspectives from the UK

by Jessica Ferm (Editor), John Tomaney (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815384830
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/05/2018
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: contexts and frameworks for contemporary planning practice Chapter 2. Devolution and planning Part I: Practices of planning Chapter 3. Plan-making: changing contexts, challenges and drivers Chapter 4. Contemporary challenges in Development Management Chapter 5. Challenges and emerging practices in development value capture Chapter 6. Public participation and the declining significance of planning Chapter 7. The design dimension of planning: making planning proactive again Part II: Changing contexts for planning practice Chapter 8. Private consultants, planning reform, and the marketization of local government finance Chapter 9. Localism and neighbourhood planning Chapter 10. The evolving intersection of planning and the commercial real estate market Chapter 11. Planning for diversity in an era of social change Chapter 12. Sustainable development and planning Part III: Planning in practice Chapter 13. Planning for housing: the global challenges confronting local practice Chapter 14. Planning for infrastructure Chapter 15. Planning for economic progress Chapter 16. Planning for public transport: applying European good practice to UK regions? Chapter 17. Planning for the regeneration of towns and cities Chapter 18. Conclusion: Beyond reflective, deliberative practice