Book Review: Whatever Happened to Planning? by PETER AMBROSE London: Methuen. 288 pp. £8.95
In: Urban studies, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 85-86
ISSN: 1360-063X
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In: Urban studies, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 85-86
ISSN: 1360-063X
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 476-477
ISSN: 1469-8684
In: Local government studies, Band 14, Heft 5, S. 45-67
ISSN: 1743-9388
In: Policy & politics, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 281-303
ISSN: 1470-8442
This article focuses on an incident, a series of events in the political life of an English city. The case in question deals with a proposal to demolish over 50 houses in the Grand Union Housing Action Area in Leicester, in 1983. The demolition plan represented a desire on the part of officers and councillors of the City Council to increase the rate of replacement of the housing stock and to break away from a policy which relied almost exclusively on improvement and repair. The plan met considerable resistance from local residents, who were predominantly Asian owner-occupiers. It split the local Labour party and was eventually abandoned.
Having described the case the paper seeks to extract from it a number of general political relationships and policy considerations. The technique of using a study of the actions of individuals and groups within a particular situation to exhibit the nature of the broader social or political structure has been widely and successfully used in social anthropology (Gluckman, 1940; Epstein, 1967). While obviously limited by its particular focus, it provides a convenient and interesting way of raising important issues and opening up areas of debate.
In: Policy & politics: advancing knowledge in public and social policy, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 281
ISSN: 0305-5736