Remaking Planning: Politics of Urban Change in the Thatcher Years

by etc. (Author), Gerry Stoker (Author), Tim Brindley (Author), Yvonne Rydin (Author), Gerry Stoker (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.29

  This book challenges the view that planning under the Thatcher governments has simply been abandoned to market forces, aiming to show that the interrelation of state and market is central to all current styles of planning. A wide variety of contemporary case studies are presented ranging across the country from Glasgow, through Cambridge and Colchester to London with a comparative analysis of their key features. The subject matter is aimed at students of planning, urban geography and urban studies and practicing architects, planners and social scientists.

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $62.92

  Remaking Planning challenges the common misconception that planning under the Conservative government has been dismantled and abandoned to market forces. This new edition of a very well received text brings the original study up to date with an analysis of how planning in the 1990s has responded to continuing economic restructuring, political fragmentation and social change, and developed a new awareness of uncertainty and risk. The book illustrates how planning remains as a never-ending attempt to reconcile the demands of economic efficiency with those of democratic legitimacy.