Investigating Town Planning: Changing Perspectives and Agendas

ISBN-13: 9780582258341 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 308 str.

Clara Greed

Opis

This third volume in the series examines the scope and nature of modern town planning in greater depth. It investigates the theories and preoccupations which inform the current planning agenda, compares this with earlier objectives, and discusses likely future trends.

Spis treści

List of Contributors.
Preface.
 
Part I: Introduction.
 
1. Town Planning Revisited.
 
Part II: The Economic Context of Town Planning.
 
2. The Market Economic Context.
3. Post War Economic Development.
4. Regenerating Buildings.
 
Part III: Planning for Housing.
 
5. Social Housing Provision.
6. Prospects for Owner Occupied Housing in the 1990s.
 
Part IV: Planning for Sustainability.
 
7. Planning for Sustainable Growth.
8. Minerals and the Environment.
 
Part V: Planning for City Centres or Decentralisation
 
9. Retailing Development: In or Out of Town.
10. City Centre Management.
 
Part VI: Changing Agendas and Agencies.
 
11. Policy Frontiers and Planning Appeals.
12. Urban Planning in a Pan European Context
13. Reconciling Theory and Practice. Bibliography
 
Index.
List of Figures.
List of Plates.
List of Tables

O autorze

Clara Greed