Planning and Urban Change

Fully revised and thoroughly updated, the <b>Second Edition</b> of <b>Planning and Urban Change</b> provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning.</p><p></p><p>Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories:<b> ideas</b> - 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; <b>policies - </b> urban planning history as an intensely political process, the text explains the complicated relation between planning theory and political practice; and<b> impacts</b> - urban planning history as the divergence of expectation and outcome, each chapter shows how intended impacts have been modified by economic and social forces.</p><p></p><p>This <b>Second Edition</b> 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.