Planning and Urban Change.
Title:
Planning and Urban Change.
Author:
Ward, Stephen.
ISBN:
9781412933803
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (379 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Picture Credits -- 1. Planning and Urban Change -- The central themes of the book -- The structure of the book -- 2. Ideas and the Beginnings of Policy, 1890-1914 -- The nineteenth-century city -- The origins of town planning ideas -- The beginnings of statutory town planning -- Overview -- 3. Widening Conceptions and Policy Shifts, 1914-39 -- Town extension planning and mass suburbanization -- New models for managing urban growth -- Origins of planned redevelopment -- Origins of balanced regional development -- Towards a comprehensive approach -- 4. A New Orthodoxy of Planning, 1939-52 -- War and the emergence of a mass consensus for planning -- Formulating the post-war planning agenda, 1940-42 -- Partial implementation of the planning agenda, 1943-45 -- Creating the new orthodoxy, 1945-47 -- Completing the new orthodoxy and the first retreats, 1947-52 -- Overview -- 5. Adjustments and New Agendas: I. The Changing Planning System, 1952-74 -- Politics, the 'affluent society' and planning -- The changing physical planning system -- Overview -- 6. Adjustments and New Agendas: II. Strategic Policies, 1952-74 -- Planning and redevelopment -- Planned containment -- Regional balance -- Planned decentralization -- Overview -- 7. Remaking Planning: I. The Changing System, 1974-90 -- The making of a new political economy -- The changing physical planning system -- Overview -- 8. Remaking Planning: II. Specific Policies, 1974-90 -- Regenerating the urban cores -- Accepting regional imbalance? -- Decentralization after the New Towns -- Planned containment -- Overview -- 9. A New Consensus? Planning since 1990 -- The post-Thatcher era -- Changing the planning system -- Specific planning policies -- Overview -- 10. Planning Impacts since 1945 and the Future -- Spatial impacts of planning.
Economic and social impacts -- The future -- Bibliography -- Websites -- Index.
Abstract:
Fully revised and thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of Planning and Urban Change provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning. Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories: ideas - urban planning history as the development of theoretical approaches: from radical and utopian beginnings, to the `new right' thinking of the 1980s, and recent interest in green thought and sustainability; policies - urban planning history as an intensely political process, the text explains the complicated relation between planning theory and political practice; and impacts - urban planning history as the divergence of expectation and outcome, each chapter shows how intended impacts have been modified by economic and social forces. This Second Edition features an entirely new chapter on the key policy changes that have occurred under the Major and Blair governments, together with a critical review of current policy trends.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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