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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Tracing the Past in the Present: Defining and Operationalising the Concept of Political Legacy -- Introduction -- What Is 'a Legacy'? -- Our Contribution -- Existing Legacy Studies -- The 'Special Case' of Margaret Thatcher's Legacy? -- Developing a Multi-Dimensional Approach to Gauging Political Legacies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Political Generations and the Fear of Crime -- Introduction -- Unpacking Political Generations -- What Do We Know About the Fear of Crime? -- Incorporating Age, Period and Cohort Effects into Our Thinking -- Categorising Political Generations -- Data -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Housing Law, Household Victimisation and the Spatial Reconfiguration of Property Crime -- Introduction -- The Ideological Background to Changes in Housing Provision After 1980 -- The Institutional and Legal Background -- What Was the Distribution of Council House Sales? -- Defining and Charting Residualisation and Polarisation -- Crime and the RTB: Our Contribution -- Trends in Tenure and Victimisation Over Time -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Rising Punitiveness in the English and Welsh Criminal Justice System -- Introduction -- Thatcherism and the Criminal Justice System -- The Criminal Justice Legislative Programme (1982-1998) -- Operationalising Punitiveness -- The Criminal Justice Act, 1982 -- The Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984 -- The Prosecution of Offences Act, 1985 -- The Drug Trafficking Offences Act, 1986 -- The Criminal Justice Act, 1988 -- The Criminal Justice Act, 1991 -- The Criminal Justice Act, 1993 -- The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, 1994 -- The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act, 1996 -- The Crime (Sentences) Act, 1997.

This book brings together a number of highly innovative and thought provoking contributions from European researchers in territorial governance-related fields such as human geography, planning studies, sociology, and management studies. The contributions share the ambition of highlighting troubling contemporary tendencies where spatial planning and territorial governance can be seen to circumscribe or subvert 'due democratic practice' and the democratic ethos. The book also functions as an introduction to some of the central strands of contemporary political philosophy, discussing their rel.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. What is Theory? -- Introduction -- The nature of theory -- The theory-practice gap -- 2. The Current Landscape of Planning Theory -- Introduction -- Typologies of planning theory -- The approach -- 3. Systems and Rational ­Theories of Planning -- Introduction -- Systems theory -- Rational process theories of planning -- Conclusions -- 4. Critical Theory and Marxism -- Introduction -- Critical theory and Marxism -- The link to planning -- From Marxism to critical theory -- Critical and Marxist planning -- Conclusions -- 5. Neoliberal Planning -- Introduction -- Free-market, 'roll-back' neoliberalism -- Roll-out neoliberalism and planning -- Variegated, evolving and experimental neoliberalism - the search for the 'perfect fix' -- Space, scale and politics -- Neoliberalism 'on the ground' -- Conclusions -- 6. Pragmatism -- Introduction -- What is pragmatism? -- Planning and pragmatism -- Discussion of pragmatism and planning -- Conclusions -- 7. Planners as Advocates -- Introduction -- The politics of planning -- Paul Davidoff and the planner as advocate -- Pluralism -- Advocacy in action? Planning Aid and equity planning -- Conclusions -- 8. After Modernity -- Introduction -- What are the modern and the postmodern? -- Postmodern planning -- Post-structuralism and complexity -- Complexity and post-structuralism -- Conclusions -- 9. Planning, Depoliticization and the Post-Political -- Introduction -- The emergence of depoliticization and the post-political -- Politics and the political -- Planning, the police and the partition of the sensible -- Planning, post-politics and depoliticization -- Post-political planning into practice? -- Conclusions -- 10. Post-Structuralism and New Planning Spaces -- Introduction -- Rethinking space and scale - a post-structuralist perspective.

"Planning and forecasting techniques in Canada": p. [54]-73. ; Includes Bibliographical footnotes. ; Mode of access: Internet.