Table of Contents

PART I: RESEARCHING PLANNING PRACTICE AND THEORY Planning Systems and Territorial Governance Constructing Accounts of Planning Practices: Theories and Concepts PART II: PLANNING, GOVERNANCE AND SPATIAL STRATEGY Planning and Governance in Three Localities Cascading Numbers: Finding New Space for Housing Jobs, Sites and Portfolio: Allocating Large Sites for Economic Development Purposes Transport at a Metaphorical Crossroads: The Gradual Penetration of a Sustainable Development Discourse Managing Waste: An Emerging Discourse in the Planning System? PART III: THE DISCOURSES AND INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS OF THE PLANNING SYSTEM Planning Discourses in Transition The Policy Communities of Spatial Strategy-making: The Emergence of a Regional Corporatism? PART IV: CONCLUSIONS: TOWARDS A POLITICS OF PLACE? Spatial Regulation or Spatial Planning: The Emergence of a New Politics of Place?

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'A very useful text for researching purposes, balancing theory with practice.' - Nick Bailey, University of Westminster

About the Author

GEOFF VIGAR is Lecturer in Planning, University of Newcastle. - PATSY HEALEY is Professor of Planning Theory, University of Newcastle. - ANGELA HULL is Senior Lecturer in Town Planning, University of Newcastle. - SIMIN DAVOUDI is Lecturer in Town Planning, University College London.

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'A very useful text for researching purposes, balancing theory with practice.' - Nick Bailey, University of Westminster