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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- chapter 2 A THEORETICAL CONTEXT OF PLANNING POLICY -- chapter 3 THE POLITICS OF PLANNING POLICY: the Major era -- chapter 4 THE POLITICS OF PLANNING POLICY: the Blair era -- chapter 5 NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL PLANNING POLICY RELATIONSHIPS -- chapter 6 NATIONAL CONSISTENCY IN THE PLANNING POLICY PROCESS -- chapter 7 REGIONAL CERTAINTY AND COMPATIBILITY IN THE PLANNING POLICY PROCESS -- chapter 8 LOCAL DISCRETION IN THE PLANNING POLICY PROCESS -- chapter 9 NATIONAL AGENDAS AND PLANNING POLICY VARIATION: Wales vs. England -- chapter 10 NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY AND DEVOLUTION IN WALES AFTER 1999 -- chapter 11 DEVOLUTION AND PLANNING POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN SCOTLAND AFTER 1999 -- chapter 12 PLANNING POLICY WITHIN NEW FORMS OF GOVERNANCE -- chapter 13 CONCLUSIONS.

Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since the early 1990s, and provides an in-depth and revealing assessment of both the Major and Blair governments' terms of office. The book will prove to be an invaluable guide to the British planning system today and the political demands on it. Students and activists within urban and regional studies, planning, political science and government, environmental studies, urban and rural geography, development, surveying and planning, will all find the book to be an essential companion to their work.

Lieven Ameel's book The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning offers a critical examination of the role of narratives and story-telling in questions concerning urban planning in future deliberations of urban change. The discussion provides an excellent way to identify, define and construct our understanding about narratives in and of planning, including the construction of a typology for the first time. But narratives of and for planning tend to mask wider meta-narrative issues that will affect how places are shaped and are changed in the future. These drivers of change not only encompass a range of socio-economic and environmental challenges. They will also have profound implications for our use of technology, and for the way our democratic processes operate. Such dramatic changes will impact on the context and form of planning, wherever you are in the world. And we are likely to see greater polarisation in attitudes toward urban and regional change, some of which may not only be proactive, but deeply reactive, subjective and selective. If the narrative turn will become more prominent in planning, we need to be ready for the likely proliferation of disruptive and insurgent narratives that will emerge and reflect the deep-seated vested interests that possess stakes in how and whether places change on their terms.

Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since the early 1990s, and provides an in-depth and revealing assessment of both the Major and Blair governments' terms of office. The book will prove to be an invaluable guide to the British planning system today and the political demands on it. Students and activists within urban and regional studies, planning, political science and government, environmental studies, urban and rural geography, development, surveying and planning, will all find the book to be an essential companion to their work.

"Digital Participatory Planning outlines developments in the field of digital planning and designs and trials a range of technologies, from the use of apps and digital gaming through to social media, to examine how accessible and effective these new methods are. It critically discusses urban planning, democracy, and computing technology literature, and sets out case studies on design and deployment. It assesses whether digital technology offers an opportunity for the public to engage with urban change, to enhance public understanding and the quality of citizen participation, and to improve the proactive possibilities of urban planning more generally. The authors present an exciting alternative story of citizen engagement in urban planning through the reimagination of participation that will be of interest to students, researchers, and professionals engaged with a digital future for people and planning"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Central Themes of Rural Second Homes -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- Aims of the Book -- Past Literature and Themes -- Concepts and Data Sources -- Information on Second Homes -- Chapter 2: The Origins of Growth -- The Origins and Social Context of Growth -- Chapter 3: Ownership and Demand -- Introduction -- The Distribution of Demand -- Second Home Types -- Modelling Future Growth -- Modelling and Prediction -- Chapter 4: Economic Costs and Benefits -- The Analysis of Costs and Benefits -- House Price Inflation -- Initial Acquisition -- Property Speculation -- General Housing Stock Improvements -- General Expenditure -- Rates or Council Tax Contribution -- The Overall Contribution -- Chapter 5: Environmental and Social Impacts -- The Range of Environmental Impacts -- New Development and Conversion -- Social Impacts -- Competing Housing Groups -- Social Impacts, Social Groups and Attitudinal Research -- Community Unease and Socio-Linguistic Concerns -- Conclusions -- Part II: Policy and Practical Responses in Europe and the United Kingdom -- Chapter 6: European Perspectives -- Introduction -- Facts Through Figures -- Belgium -- Denmark -- Finland -- France -- Greece -- Spain -- Sweden -- Norway -- Other European States -- Chapter 7: Housing Policy Responses in the UK -- Economic and Social Development -- Housing Policy Options -- Providing Non-Market Housing -- 'Municipalising' Empty Properties -- Managing Private Properties -- Community Self-Build -- Improvement Grant Restrictions -- The Tax System -- Differential Rates or Council Tax -- Standard Purchase Levies and Restrictions on Mortgage Finance -- Property Licensing and the Creation of Housing Sub-Markets -- Planning and Development Control.

This new book aims to understand how both specific planning and broader public sector reforms have been experienced and understood by chartered town planners working in local authorities across Great Britain.

There is a growing academic interest in the idea of co-designing methods to achieve urban innovation and urban planning. As we see cities as "living laboratories", beyond the control of elected city government, there is a momentum to develop and test shared responses to the social, environmental, and economic challenges present in contemporary urbanism. These living laboratories are a function of open innovation or "quadruple helix" actors, drawn from state, business, higher education, and community sectors. However, translating the often-good intention principles of working together through shared and co-designed arrangements in any major urban area is often a significant challenge and a topic neglected to date. This article addresses this gap through the case study of Newcastle City Futures, a university-anchored platform in the northeast of the UK, that sought to co-design collaborative urban research, public engagement, and innovation. Newcastle City Futures created novel working methods centred on participatory games to facilitate shared understanding and joint ideas for new urban innovation projects across established sectors. This article will examine one method that was successful in generating collaboration and participation: "LEGO® mash-ups". Detailed empirical accounts of the development of the LEGO® mash-up method are used to illustrate attitudes to urban challenges, the fostering of a spirit of open collaboration, and the development of innovative responses through co-design. These are used to support the conceptual argument that the use of the quadruple helix as a form of urban innovation system needs to be accompanied by accessible, workable, and easily interpreted translation methods, such as games, by intermediaries.