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Planning and Governance: Whatever Happened to Spatial Planning?
Planning in the UK has changed beyond all recognition over the last twenty years and has broadened out from its regulatory core. It is now charged with coordinating the spatial aspects of a range of policy agendas at the local and regional levels, and to provide a mediation forum for various interests that is responsive to changing conditions.
The reformed planning system reflects both continuities with and radical departures from the past. Planning can no longer be understood as a single entity but as turbulent, fluid and adaptable processes.
This ongoing project charts the evolution of planning reform, and suggests that what we have today are diverse activities of intervention, coordination and delivery that vary geographically and politically. Planning has been strengthened but within an increasingly complex and demanding environment that only serve to question its purpose and activity.
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Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones
- Outputs
Allmendinger, P. and Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2000), New Labour, new planning? The trajectory of planning in Blair's Britain, Urban Studies 37(8), 1379-1402. ISSN 0042-0980.
Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2002), The Planning Polity: Planning, Government and the Policy Process, Routledge, London.
Allmendinger, P., Tewdwr-Jones, M. and Morphet, J. (2003), Public scrutiny, standards and the planning system: Assessing professional values within a modernized local government, Public Administration 81(4), 761-80. ISSN 0033-3298.
Allmendinger, P., Tewdwr-Jones, M. and Morphet, J. (2003), New order: reforms to planning and local government reforms, Town and Country Planning Vol.72 No.9, 274-7.
Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2004), Spatial planning: principles, practice and culture, Journal of Planning and Environment Law 57(4), ISSN 0307-4870.
Allmendinger, P., Morphet, J. and Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2005), Devolution and the modernisation of local government: prospects for spatial planning, European Planning Studies.
Tewdwr-Jones, M., Morphet, J. and Allmendinger, P. (2005), The contested strategies of local governance: Community strategies, development plans and local government modernization, Environment and Planning A.
Tewdwr-Jones, M. and Allmendinger, P. (2007), 'Regional institutions, planning and governance', in Dimitriou, H.T. (eds.), Strategic Planning for Regional Development in the UK, Spon Press, London, ISBN 780415349376.
Tewdwr-Jones, M. and Allmendinger, P. (eds.) (2006), Territory, Identity and Space, Routledge, London (contracted and in preparation).
Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2008), 'The Complexity of Planning Reform: A Search for the Spirit and Purpose of Planning', Town Planning Review, Vol.79(6), 673-88. ISSN 0041-0020.
Gallent, N., Morphet, J., Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2008), 'Parish Plans and the Spatial Planning Approach', Town Planning Review 79(1), 1-29. ISSN: 0041-0020
Phelps, N.A. and Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2008), 'If geography is anything, maybe it's planning's alter ego? Reflections on policy relevance in two disciplines concerned with place and space', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33(4), 566-584, ISSN 1475-5661.
Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2009), 'Governing London: The Evolving Institutional and Planning Landscape', in Imrie, R., Lees, L. and Raco, M. (eds), Regenerating London: Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City, Routledge, London, ISBN 978-0-415-43367-9.
Allmendinger, P. and Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2009), 'Embracing Change and Difference in Planning Reform: New Labour's Role for Planning in Complex Times', Planning Practice and Research, Vol.24(1), 71-81. ISSN 0269-7459.
Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2010), 'Cohesion and Competitiveness: the Context for European Territorial Development', in Adams, N., Cotella, G. and Nunes, R. (eds), Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: Building on EU Enlargement, Routledge, London.
Tewdwr-Jones, M., Gallent, N., Morphet, J. (2010), 'An Anatomy of Spatial Planning: Coming to Terms with the Spatial Element in UK Planning', European Planning Studies, Vol.18(2), 239-57. ISSN 0965-4313.
Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2012), Planning and Governance: Whatever Happened to Spatial Planning? Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (in print)