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The British Planning System

An Introduction

  • Textbook
  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Yvonne Rydin
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Part of the book series: Government beyond the Centre (GBC)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 1-13

  3. The Development of Planning Policy and Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Establishing the Planning System

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 17-32

    3. Experience and Change in the Postwar Period

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 33-58

    4. The Decade of Thatcherism and After

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 59-84

  4. Planning Today

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Land Use Planning and Conservation

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 87-115

    3. Countryside Policy

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 116-139

    4. Environmental Planning

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 140-158

    5. Urban Policy and Transport

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 159-177

  5. The Politics of Planning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. The State

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 181-212

    3. The Planners

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 213-227

    4. The Public

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 228-256

  6. Planning and the Market

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Alternative Approaches

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 259-281

    3. Land for Housing

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 282-293

    4. Minerals Exploitation

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 294-305

    5. Pollution: Emission and Control

      • Yvonne Rydin
      Pages 306-319
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The British Planning System provides an innovative introduction to urban and environmental planning combining comprehensive coverage of institutions and procedures with detailed analysis of the economic and political context of planning, its historical development and of competing theoretical approaches. Extensive use is made throughout of case studies, summary charts and exhibits to bring the subject to life. The book concludes with an assessment of the achievements and failures of British planning and the case for planning activity today.

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