Planning and Urban Change

by Stephen Ward

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Fully revised and thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of Planning and Urban Change provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning.

Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories: ideas - 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; policies - urban planning history as an intensely political process, the text explains the complicated relation between planning theory and political practice; and impacts - urban planning history as the divergence of expectation and outcome, each chapter shows how intended impacts have been modified by economic and social forces.

This Second Edition 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.

  • ISBN10 1412933803
  • ISBN13 9781412933803
  • Publish Date 18 February 2004 (first published 28 April 1994)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 320
  • Language English