Fully revised and thoroughly updated the Second Edition of Planning and UrbanChange provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urbanplanning.... » 

Fully revised and thoroughly updated the Second Edition of Planning and UrbanChange provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urbanplanning.Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through threecategories ideas urban planning history as the development of theoreticalapproaches from radical and utopian beginnings to the new right thinking ofthe 1980s and recent interest in green thought and sustainability policies urban planning history as an intensely political process the text explains thecomplicated relation between planning theory and political practice andimpacts urban planning history as the divergence of expectation and outcomeeach chapter shows how intended impacts have been modified by economic andsocial forces.This Second Edition features an entirely new chapter on the key policy changesthat have occurred under the Major and Blair governments together with acritical review of current policy trends. «