Planning, governance and spatial strategy in Britain : an institutionalist analysis / Geoff Vigar ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vigar, Geoff.

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Series:

Planning, environment, cities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regional planning--Great Britain.

Regional planning.

Great Britain.

Land use--Great Britain.

Land use.

Physical Description:

x, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This book examines a range of localized approaches to planning and policy as they emerge in England in the 1990s, situating the role of formal planning, and the development plan in particular, in addressing wider issues of local governance. It pioneers the empirical application of the institutionalist approach to policy analysis in relation to four policy areas--housing, economic development, transport, and waste--showing how such an approach can go beyond traditional analytical foci on organizations and procedural rules. The book combines conceptual innovation with detailed empirical evidence on issues of key current concern.

Contents:

Part I Researching Planning Practice and Theory

1. Planning systems and territorial governance 3

Territory, place and planning 3

The elements of the English planning system 6

The English planning system in transition 27

2. Constructing accounts of planning practices: theories and concepts 32

Describing policy practices 32

Analysing local politics and planning practices 34

Regulation theory and urban regime theory 39

The institutionalist turn in urban and regional analysis 43

An institutionalist approach to policy analysis and planning practices 47

Policy discourses, policy communities and policy arenas 51

Part II Planning, Governance and Spatial Strategy

3. Planning and governance in three localities 55

Three windows into English local governance 55

Socioeconomic and administrative contexts 56

The governance context: major stakeholders, alliances and arenas 65

Policy agendas: the driving forces of territorial strategy making 73

Planning frameworks in the three localities 78

4. Cascading numbers: finding space for new housing 91

Containing spatial conflicts over new housing development 91

Absorbing growth: urban regeneration versus greenfield locations 95

The planning system and releasing land for housing 113

5. Jobs, sites and portfolios: allocating large sites for economic development purposes 118

Creating jobs or competitive assets? 118

Premium sites, regional selectivity and area transformation: policy agendas and discourses 123

Co-ordinating, mobilising and repositioning: reconfiguring institutional relations 136

The planning system and economic development 148

6. Transport at a metaphorical crossroads: the gradual penetration of a sustainable development discourse? 153

Discourses of transport policy making 153

Transport, regulation and the State 154

Local policy agendas and discourses 158

The transport policy community and the wider polity 175

Reintegrating transport issues and the planning system 180

7. Managing waste: an emerging discourse in the planning system 185

Changing approaches to waste management 185

Selecting options from the waste hierarchy: policy agendas and discourses 192

Complexity, fragmentation and reconfiguration: institutional relationships 204

The planning system and waste management 213

Part III The Discourses and Institutional Relations of the Planning System

8. Planning discourses in transition 219

Spatial ordering concepts in British planning 220

Analysing policy discourses 222

The contents of planning policy discourses 227

Framing conceptions in planning policy discourses 238

9. The policy communities of spatial strategy making: the future emergence of a regional corporatism? 245

Analysing policy communities 245

Stakeholders, policy communities and spatial strategy making 247

Policy arenas and spatial strategy making 250

Reconfiguring policy communities and policy arenas 252

Institutional innovation and the re-emergence of regional arenas 263

The role of land use planning policy communities and arenas 264

Part IV Conclusions: Towards A Politics of Place?

10. Spatial regulation or spatial strategies: towards a new politics of place? 271

Reinventing government and the significance of the 'place' focus 271

The English planning system at the turn of the millennium 273

Crisis in the regulatory regime 277

Building new trajectories 279

Evaluating evolutions in place-focused planning 282

A new local politics of place 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-307) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0312231253

OCLC:

42736365