Spatial planning is at a crossroads, with government reform undermining the traditional vision of state-employed planners making decisions about urban development in a unified public interest. Nearly half of UK planners are now employed in the private sector, with complex inter-relations between the sectors including supplying outsourced services to local authorities struggling with centrally-imposed budget cuts.
Drawing on new empirical data from a major research project, ‘Working in the Public Interest’, this book reveals what it’s like to be a UK planner in the early 21st century, and how the profession can fulfil its potential for the benefit of society and the environment.
Part 1: Contexts
1. Introduction: The Changing Organisational Contexts for Planning and Why It Matters
2. Public and Private in Post-war British Planning
3. The Public Interest and Planning’s Contested Purposes
4. Organisational Settings and Everyday Practices
Part 2: Conditions
5. Privatisation and the Contemporary Landscape of Planning Provision in the UK
6. Commodification and Casualisation: Consultancies and Agency Staff in UK Planning
7. Commercialisation and Planning
8. Twenty-First Century Planning Work and Workplaces
Part 3: Consequences
9. Professionalism and Planning
10. Realising the Public Interest in Planning?
11. Conclusions: Reorganising the Future of Public Interest Planning?
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