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The Future of Planning : Beyond Growth Dependence.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781447308423
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.1216
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- The Future of Planning -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Preface -- 1. Introducing growth-dependent planning -- Welcome to Anywheretown - the home of growth dependence! -- Governance: the context for growth dependence -- Alternative responses to growth dependence -- The structure of the book -- 2. Embedding growth dependence in the planning system -- Planners' growing dependence on growth -- The institutions of contemporary planning practice -- 3. The growth-dependent planning paradigm -- The economic model underpinning growth-dependent planning -- The direct and consequential benefits of promoting development -- 4. The flawed economic assumptions of growth-dependent planning -- The core assumption of economic growth -- Spatial patterns of economic growth -- Coping with economic restructuring -- Leveraging private sector development -- 5. The environmental and social consequences of growth‑dependent planning -- Growth-dependent planning as green growth -- The implications for environmental sustainability -- Growth-dependent planning as land value uplift -- The implications for local communities -- 6. Reforming the planning agenda -- Well-being, tackling inequalities and sustainability -- Reframing planning for just sustainability -- The need for reformed planning institutions -- 7. Alternative development models -- Affordable housing -- The Garden City model -- Community development and land trusts -- Self-build and plotlands -- Finding low-value land -- 8. Protecting and improving existing places -- Improving housing standards -- Spaces for small and medium-sized enterprises -- Vacant property and land -- 9. Assets in common -- The limitations of private provision and management -- Community ownership and management -- Buying and funding community assets -- Managing community assets -- 10. Reforming the planning system.
The argument of the book -- Reformed community engagement -- Bringing it all together -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: This timely book provides a fresh analysis of the limitations of the growth-dependence planning paradigm and considers alternative urban development models, ways of protecting and enhancing existing low value land uses and means of managing community assets within the built environment.
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Intro -- The Future of Planning -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Preface -- 1. Introducing growth-dependent planning -- Welcome to Anywheretown - the home of growth dependence! -- Governance: the context for growth dependence -- Alternative responses to growth dependence -- The structure of the book -- 2. Embedding growth dependence in the planning system -- Planners' growing dependence on growth -- The institutions of contemporary planning practice -- 3. The growth-dependent planning paradigm -- The economic model underpinning growth-dependent planning -- The direct and consequential benefits of promoting development -- 4. The flawed economic assumptions of growth-dependent planning -- The core assumption of economic growth -- Spatial patterns of economic growth -- Coping with economic restructuring -- Leveraging private sector development -- 5. The environmental and social consequences of growth‑dependent planning -- Growth-dependent planning as green growth -- The implications for environmental sustainability -- Growth-dependent planning as land value uplift -- The implications for local communities -- 6. Reforming the planning agenda -- Well-being, tackling inequalities and sustainability -- Reframing planning for just sustainability -- The need for reformed planning institutions -- 7. Alternative development models -- Affordable housing -- The Garden City model -- Community development and land trusts -- Self-build and plotlands -- Finding low-value land -- 8. Protecting and improving existing places -- Improving housing standards -- Spaces for small and medium-sized enterprises -- Vacant property and land -- 9. Assets in common -- The limitations of private provision and management -- Community ownership and management -- Buying and funding community assets -- Managing community assets -- 10. Reforming the planning system.

The argument of the book -- Reformed community engagement -- Bringing it all together -- Notes -- References -- Index.

This timely book provides a fresh analysis of the limitations of the growth-dependence planning paradigm and considers alternative urban development models, ways of protecting and enhancing existing low value land uses and means of managing community assets within the built environment.

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