The New Spatial Planning: Territorial Management with Soft Spaces and Fuzzy Boundaries

The New Spatial Planning: Territorial Management with Soft Spaces and Fuzzy Boundaries (RTPI Library Series)

by: Graham Haughton – Philip Allmendinger – David Counsell – Geoff Vigar

ISBN-10: 0415483352

ISBN-13: 9780415483353

Edition: 1

Publication date: December 14, 2009

Hardcover: 288 pages
Book Description
Spatial planning, strongly advocated by govement and the profession, is intended to be more holistic, more strategic, more inclusive, more integrative and more attuned to sustainable development than previous approaches. In what the authors refer to as the New Spatial Planning, there is a fairly rapidly evolving maturity and sophistication in how strategies are developed and produced. Crucially, the authors argue that the reworked boundaries of spatial planning means that to understand it we need to look as much outside the formal system of practices of ‘planning’ as within it. Using a rich empirical resource base, this book takes a critical look at recent practices to see whether the new spatial planning is having the kinds of impacts its advocates would wish. Contributing to theoretical debates in planning, state restructuring and goveance, it also outlines and critiques the contemporary practice of spatial planning. This book will have a place on the shelves of researchers and students interested in urban/regional studies, politics and planning studies.