Description
Book SynopsisThis timely book provides a fresh analysis of the limitations of the growth-dependence planning paradigm and considers alternative urban development models, ways of protecting and enhancing existing low value land uses and means of managing community assets within the built environment
Trade Review"In this excellent book, Yvonne Rydin skilfully critiques the current growth-dependent British planning system while offering a comprehensive and progressive agenda for its reform using the concept of `just sustainability.’" Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, USA.
"Contains much that will engage anyone who has an interest in the kinds of villages, towns and cities we should build in Britain." International Planning Studies
Table of ContentsPreface; Introducing growth-dependent planning; Embedding Growth-Dependence in the Planning System; The Growth-Dependent Planning Paradigm; The Flawed Economic Assumptions of Growth Dependent Planning; The Environmental and Social Consequences of Growth Dependent Planning; Reforming the Planning Agenda; Alternative Development Models; Protecting and Improving Existing Places; Assets in Common; Reforming the Planning System.
