Neoliberal Spatial Governance explores the changing nature of
English town and city planning as it has slowly but clearly
transformed. Once a system for regulating and balancing change in
the built and natural environments in the public interest, planning
now finds itself facilitating development and economic growth for
narrow, sectional interests. Whilst there is a lip service towards
traditional values, the progressive aims and inclusivity that
provided planning's legitimacy and broad support have now largely
disappeared. The result is a growing backlash of distrust and
discontent as planning has evolved into neoliberal spatial
governance. The tragedy of this change is that at a time when
planning has a critical role in tackling major issues such as
housing affordability and climate change, it finds itself poorly
resourced with low professional morale, lacking legitimacy and
support from local communities, accused of bureaucracy and 'red
tape' from businesses and ministers and subject to regular,
disruptive reforms. Yet all is not lost. There is still demand and
support for more comprehensive and progressive planning, one that
is not purely driven by the needs of developers and investors.
Resistance against the idea that planning exists to help roll out
development, is growing. Neoliberal Spatial Governance explores the
background and implications of the changes in planning under the
governments of the past four decades and the ways we might think
about halting and reversing this shift.
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