The Collaborating Planner?: Practitioners in the Neoliberal Age

ISBN-13: 9781447305101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str.

Ben Clifford; Mark Tewdwr-Jones

Opis

This book aims to understand how both specific planning and broader public sector reforms have been experienced and understood by chartered town planners working at local levels of authority across Great Britain. Each chapter outlines the reaction by professionals to reforms promoted by successive central and devolved governments over the last decade, before considering the broader issues of what this tells us about how modernization is rolled out by frontline public servants. "The Collaborating Planner?" fills a glaring gap in scholarship and makes ideal reading for students and researchers interested in the UK planning system.

Spis treści

Introduction: planning at the coalface at a time of constant change; Conceptualising governance and planning reform; The planner within a professional and institutional context; Process: implementing spatial planning; Management: the efficiency agenda, audits and targets; Participation: planners and their ‘customers’; Culture: the planning ‘ethos’; Conclusions: the importance of planning’s frontline.