This title was first published in 2002: Regional planning and government in the UK is undergoing a period of tremendous activity, with a wide range of new policies, innovative techniques and experiments being tested. This volume provides an overview of developments, describing and analyzing the legislative, political and economic contexts within which changes are occurring, and assessing the continuing difficulties that face planners and others operating in the new arrangements for regional planning
List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, PART I:
INTRODUCTION,
1. Introduction, PART II: REGIONAL REALITIES AND REGIONAL
INSTITUTIONS,
2. Thinking about the English Regions,
3. Scenarios for the
Future of Regional Planning Within UK/EU Spatial Planning,
4. The Regional
Agenda, Planning and Development in Scotland,
5. Government Offices for the
Regions and Regional Planning,
6. Integrating Local and Central Concerns in
the New Regional Landscape: Pipe Dream or Political Project?, PART III:
THEMES AND TOPICS,
7. Regional Transport Strategies: Fond Hope or Serious
Planning?,
8. Re-Shaping Regions, Re-Ordering Utilities: Competing
Development Trajectories,
9. Promoting Sustainable Development through
Regional Plans: The Role of the Environment Agency,
10. Regional Planning and
the Environmental Dimension of Sustainable Development, PART IV: REGIONAL
PLANNING - REGIONAL VARIATION,
11. Integrated Policy Development at the
Regional Level - A Case Study of the East Midlands Integrated Regional
Strategy,
12. Regional Planning in the West Midlands,
13. The South West -
Lessons for the Future,
14. Regional Planning in South East England - A Case
of Eyes Wide Shut, PART V: CONCLUSIONS,
15. Some Interim Conclusions:
Regional Planning Guidance and Regional Governance for the 21st Century
Glasson, John
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