Gavin Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3079-4377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Recognizing justice through neighbourhood scale planning in England
Time and the ‘temporal turn’ in planning theory and practice: An agenda
This commentary piece discusses how time and temporalities have, to date, not been paid enough attention or sufficiently understood and researched in planning theory and practice. The article argues that a wider recognition of time in and for planning is needed and highlights the emerging interest and potentials for greater research activity investigating this aspect of planning and urban governance. The main purpose of the article is to set out …
Towards everyday conceptions of justice in community-led planning
This paper draws upon a novel analytical framework to review a sample of community-led plans produced across the four nations of the United Kingdom. It explores how communities interpret issues of (in)justice and how they seek to address them. Focusing on plans produced by communities categorised as more deprived, the analysis shows that discussions of abstracted notions of equality, diversity and inclusion are almost entirely absent, with commun…
Disentangling the multiple roles of neighbourhood planning consultants in the English planning system. A view from within
The extensive use of consultants in English neighbourhood planning was identified early in research discussing its implementation. This practice paper reflects on the roles that such consultants have sustained in the ‘enactment space’ shaped by that policy. This is sustained by highlighting the experience of an extensively active consultant whose reflection is used as a form of biographical interpretivist research to highlight the nuances of the …
Planning education and the field of practice: A Bourdieusian analysis
In the context of change and pressures to reconfigure formal planning education, the article draws on Bourdieu’s field theory to frame the experience of graduates in initial planning education in the UK. The research situates education in a contested professional context. The findings hold import for the profession given that relevant knowledge is expanding and core knowledge must be retained and instilled early, while training about specific pol…
Examining the discourse of ‘delay’ in urban governance: Project speed and the politicisation of time in the English Planning System
While a growing body of work has been produced on the temporalities of urban governance and planning, limited attention has been paid to questioning how time is deployed through the application of chrono-technologies (Nowotny, 1994). Drawing on governmental and industry grey literature and empirical data, this paper examines the discourse of delay and ‘project speed’ surrounding planning policy and practice in England. Prompted by sustained accus…
Slow Planning?: Timescapes, Power and Democracy
A deep exploration on how questions of time and its organisation affect planning practice, this book questions 'project speed': where time to think, deliberate and plan has been squeezed. The authors demonstrate the many benefits of slow planning for the key participants, multiple interests and planning system overall.
Slow Planning?: Timescapes, Power and Democracy
Written as a deep exploration of how questions of time and its organisation affect planning practice, this book is aimed at public and private planning practitioners, national and local politicians and policymakers involved in planning, and academics and students studying planning and related disciplines. It presents time as a pervasive tool of power and political resource that shapes practice. The book acts as a stimulus for those wishing to que…
The Biodiversity Crisis – Planning for Nature Recovery: Edited by Mark Scott and Gavin Parker
The Biodiversity Crisis and Emerging Roles for PlanningMark Scott and Gavin ParkerThe Global Biodiversity ChallengeMeri Juntti, Joshua Castellino and Oscar ForeroPlanning and Biodiversity Net Gain
The role and significance of planning consultants as intermediary-actors: Between and amongst government, civic society and the market
The paper discusses the role of private planning consultants as intermediary-actors and their implications in relation to planning theory and practice. To do so, the paper focuses on niche consultants involved in servicing neighbourhood scale plan-making in England, clarifying that they hold crucial agency in local planning processes and adding to the understanding of consultancy roles and co-production dynamics in planning. The paper draws toget…
In defence of good planning: Planning practice, the learned profession and unifying action through reflexive lifelong learning
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0
The temporal governance of planning in England: Planning reform, Uchronia and ‘proper time
Attention to the multiple temporalities of planning has gained recent and further traction in the planning literature, and time is clearly implicated in how power and resources are combined in the governance of the built and natural environment. Time, and specifically the management of clock time, shapes planning practice. Moreover successive reform agendas in England have drawn heavily on temporal framings of ‘speed’, ‘efficiency’ and ‘delay’ as…
Words (in)action: The orchestration of participation in planning through Statements of Community Involvement in England
Drawing on empirical material this article examines the political work enacted through the seemingly mundane procedures and texts that shape planning practice and community participation, yet which reflect the exercise of different forms of power. Through application of Foucauldian power theory, the article shows how the design and the specificities of inscription of Statements of Community Involvement (SCIs) reflect institutional resistance to m…
An understanding gap? Planning education in a time of change: A response to Taylor and Close
Building on Taylor and Close’s (2022) commentary reviewing the skills gap concerning how planners are educated and trained, this response places this ‘gap’ in the context of key relationships that shape this; between skills, knowledges and attitudes, including a more nuanced understanding of knowledge; between the Royal Town Planning Institute, planning schools and employers and between planning and other built-environment disciplines. The result…
Localism and the will to housing: Neighbourhood development plans and their role in local housing site delivery in England
The planning system in England is regarded as a key mechanism for the delivery of housing but is also seen by some as a brake on its supply. In this context, the introduction of neighbourhood planning in 2011 has been promoted as a mechanism to reduce opposition to new housing and aid housing growth. This paper focuses on how this policy tool has been implemented with a view to mobilising communities to assist in the allocation of housing sites. …
The moral economy of localism in England: Neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’
The design, operation and modifications to neighbourhood planning are viewed here as a quintessential neoliberal project. This paper argues that the political policy construction and modification of neighbourhood planning in England is a quintessentially neoliberal project. It discusses the moral economy of the localism agenda where it is argued that the criticisms levelled at neighbourhood planning during its first few years have proven to be ac…
Neighbourhood planning in England: A decade of institutional learning
Drawing on a mix of policy learning and new institutionalist theory, the paper sets out the empirical evidence regarding the unfolding of neighbourhood planning (NP) in England during more than ten years of participatory practice. What has been learned about how this policy has been shaped reflexively by institutional actors is reviewed, drawing on two significant national research studies. The contribution of the paper is to provide a detailed c…
Governmental Logics in Commercialised Planning Practices. The Case of Local Authority Pre-Application Negotiations in the English Planning System
The paper provides an empirical review of a widely used tool in the English planning system – pre-application discussions (‘pre-apps’) and a theoretical exposition of governmental ‘logics’ that underpin neoliberal-informed planning reforms. We present five logic frames of growth, efficiency, commercialisation, participation and quality, and apply these to pre-application negotiation practice, to highlight how Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) are…
Neighbourhood planning, rural ageing and public health policy in England: A case of policy myopia
This article draws together new research findings with recent evidence, theory and policy developments relating to place-based planning for health and well-being. It considers how neighbourhood planning (NP) can support the advancement of the ageing-well agenda and well-being goals in rural areas of England. We argue that NP can theoretically impact positively on age-friendly objectives (sensitive housing design, downsizing options, social and ci…
Institutional liminality, ideological pluralism and the pragmatic behaviours of a ‘transition entrepreneur’
Indoor Particulate Matter From Smoker Homes Induces Bacterial Growth, Biofilm Formation, and Impairs Airway Antimicrobial Activity. A Pilot Study
Background Particulate matter (PM) air pollution causes deleterious health effects; however, less is known about health effects of indoor air particulate matter (IAP). Objective To understand whether IAP influences distinct mechanisms in the development of respiratory tract infections, including bacterial growth, biofilm formation, and innate immunity. Additionally, we tested whether IAP from Iowa houses of subjects with and without recent respir…
The Future of the Planning Profession
This Interface emerged from a symposium on the future of the planning profession held at the University of Reading in September 2019. This reflected on present new challenges concerning the means, political standing, and substantive goals of planning across the globe. Some issues discussed are longer-run and continually shifting. The conditions and tasks faced by planning have morphed, as have the types of people and sectoral balance involved in …
Entangling voluntarism, leisure time and political work: The governmentalities of neighbourhood planning in England
Neighbourhood planning was the first volunteer-led statutory planning tool to be created in the UK. Whilst it has provoked debate and critique covering numerous practical and theoretical aspects, little attention has been paid to the actual experience and motives of the volunteers who spend their leisure time by volunteering to prepare a plan. Given the range of leisure activities that have been shaped in the context of a neo-liberalised policy e…
Taking Stock of Neighbourhood Planning in England 2011–2016
Neighbourhood planning (NP) as enabled by the 2011 Localism Act in England has precipitated a considerable literature discussing its potential, limitations and likely shortcomings referenced against government rhetoric and the reporting of initial experiences of the process. This paper provides an overview of the current literature on neighbourhood planning and sets out how it has been received and practised across England drawing on empirical ev…
Shared Ownership and Affordable Housing: A Political Solution in Search of a Planning Justification
Planners in England routinely include shared ownership (SO) housing in the affordable housing element of new developments. Government policies in a number of European countries have also backed intermediate housing market mechanisms as a solution to housing affordability. The rhetoric of such mechanisms makes claims about its social progressiveness, its role in facilitating socio-economic mobility and helping people move from rented accommodation…
Digging-up’ Utopia? Space, practice and land use heritage
Land, Rights and the Gift: The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and the Negotiation of Citizenship
The Countryside and Rights of Way Act came into force at the end of 2000 with,as part of its content, new provisions relating to public access to the English and Welsh countryside. In this paper we review the main elements of the Act and assess its meaning in relation to citizenship, territoriality and the place of land in English law and society. We invoke Mauss's (1954)concept of Gift to explain the process of brokerage being made over access a…
The Country Code and the ordering of countryside citizenship
The role of the consumer‐citizen in environmental protest in the 1990s
This paper links market‐based ‘protest’ strategies, as used recently by environmental protest groups and other sociations, to citizenship theory, seeking to open a debate about the role of the consumer‐citizen. It is suggested that such consumer‐citizenship, whereby protest and political action are encouraged through market mechanisms, and limited through state action, is an important feature of late‐modernity. The paper seeks to illustrate how a…
ELMs disease: Stewardship, corporatism and citizenship in the English countryside
Rights, Symbolic Violence, and the Micropolitics of the Rural: The Case of the Parish Paths Partnership Scheme
In this paper microlevel politics and conflict associated with social and economic change in the countryside and linked changes in rural governance are explored with a focus upon research carried out on a recent rural policy initiative aimed at local 'empowerment'. This acts as a touchstone for a wider theoretical discussion. The paper is theorised within a conceptual framework derived and extended from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and others in o…
The Negotiation of Leisure Citizenship: Leisure Constraints, Moral Regulation and the Mediation of Rural Place
This paper extends the constraints of leisure literature by demonstrating how materials are circulated to regulate and constrain leisure behaviour in the countryside. It is argued that constraints in the form of moral regulation should be recognised as part of the constraints literature. The development of the Country Code in England 1 1. The Code itself was originally known as the Country Code, although in its more recent incarnations it has bee…
Benevolence, nationalism and hegemony: Fifty years of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949
This paper reviews the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 fifty years since its enactment. The Act is assessed in the light of fifty years of access policy and within the present context of political debates and manoeuvres over the ‘right to roam’. It is concluded that benevolence is still the prevailing attitude towards access provision, maintaining as it does the scope for alternative freedoms and opportunities to exploit lan…
The temporal governance of planning in England: Planning reform, Uchronia and ‘proper time
Attention to the multiple temporalities of planning has gained recent and further traction in the planning literature, and time is clearly implicated in how power and resources are combined in the governance of the built and natural environment. Time, and specifically the management of clock time, shapes planning practice. Moreover successive reform agendas in England have drawn heavily on temporal framings of ‘speed’, ‘efficiency’ and ‘delay’ as…
Neighbourhood planning in England: A decade of institutional learning
Drawing on a mix of policy learning and new institutionalist theory, the paper sets out the empirical evidence regarding the unfolding of neighbourhood planning (NP) in England during more than ten years of participatory practice. What has been learned about how this policy has been shaped reflexively by institutional actors is reviewed, drawing on two significant national research studies. The contribution of the paper is to provide a detailed c…
Institutional liminality, ideological pluralism and the pragmatic behaviours of a ‘transition entrepreneur’
Rights, the environment and Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
Using figures derived from the UK Home Office, this paper analyses and reviews the impact and deployment of Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 since its enactment. This is done with special reference to its impact on citizenship and the regulation of ‘the environment’ and associated rural spaces. It is argued that, notwithstanding the actual use of the public order clauses in Part V of the Act, its underlying meanings are la…
Regulating Time, Regulating Society: Control and Colonisation in the Sphere of Public Leisure Provision
In this paper, we seek to review state reconstruction of public sector leisure provision in the UK. We suggest that there is a need to consider more fully the role (and similar reconstruction) of the individual as leisure consumer. In doing this, we question the constructions of both the "modern" state and of the notion of free" time. Adopting a regulationist approach, we suggest that analyses of the state and free-time should be shifted from an …
Examining the discourse of ‘delay’ in urban governance: Project speed and the politicisation of time in the English Planning System
While a growing body of work has been produced on the temporalities of urban governance and planning, limited attention has been paid to questioning how time is deployed through the application of chrono-technologies (Nowotny, 1994). Drawing on governmental and industry grey literature and empirical data, this paper examines the discourse of delay and ‘project speed’ surrounding planning policy and practice in England. Prompted by sustained accus…
The moral economy of localism in England: Neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’
The design, operation and modifications to neighbourhood planning are viewed here as a quintessential neoliberal project. This paper argues that the political policy construction and modification of neighbourhood planning in England is a quintessentially neoliberal project. It discusses the moral economy of the localism agenda where it is argued that the criticisms levelled at neighbourhood planning during its first few years have proven to be ac…
ELMs disease: Stewardship, corporatism and citizenship in the English countryside
The role of the consumer‐citizen in environmental protest in the 1990s
This paper links market‐based ‘protest’ strategies, as used recently by environmental protest groups and other sociations, to citizenship theory, seeking to open a debate about the role of the consumer‐citizen. It is suggested that such consumer‐citizenship, whereby protest and political action are encouraged through market mechanisms, and limited through state action, is an important feature of late‐modernity. The paper seeks to illustrate how a…
Regulating Time, Regulating Society: Control and Colonisation in the Sphere of Public Leisure Provision
In this paper, we seek to review state reconstruction of public sector leisure provision in the UK. We suggest that there is a need to consider more fully the role (and similar reconstruction) of the individual as leisure consumer. In doing this, we question the constructions of both the "modern" state and of the notion of free" time. Adopting a regulationist approach, we suggest that analyses of the state and free-time should be shifted from an …
Shorter notice. Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe. Hall
Journal Article Shorter notice. Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe. Hall Get access G Parker G Parker Ohio State University, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 455, February 1999, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.455.169 Published: 01 February 1999
Benevolence, nationalism and hegemony: Fifty years of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949
This paper reviews the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 fifty years since its enactment. The Act is assessed in the light of fifty years of access policy and within the present context of political debates and manoeuvres over the ‘right to roam’. It is concluded that benevolence is still the prevailing attitude towards access provision, maintaining as it does the scope for alternative freedoms and opportunities to exploit lan…
Rights, the environment and Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
Using figures derived from the UK Home Office, this paper analyses and reviews the impact and deployment of Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 since its enactment. This is done with special reference to its impact on citizenship and the regulation of ‘the environment’ and associated rural spaces. It is argued that, notwithstanding the actual use of the public order clauses in Part V of the Act, its underlying meanings are la…
Rights, Symbolic Violence, and the Micropolitics of the Rural: The Case of the Parish Paths Partnership Scheme
In this paper microlevel politics and conflict associated with social and economic change in the countryside and linked changes in rural governance are explored with a focus upon research carried out on a recent rural policy initiative aimed at local 'empowerment'. This acts as a touchstone for a wider theoretical discussion. The paper is theorised within a conceptual framework derived and extended from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and others in o…
Planning and Rights: Some Repercussions of the Human Rights Act 1998 for the UK
Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside: Rights, Culture, Land and the Environment
There is hardly another form of urban development that has received so much public attention since the late 1990s as privately organised and secured housing developments. For the antagonists, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient way of organising urban life. Private Cities brings toge…
Land, Rights and the Gift: The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and the Negotiation of Citizenship
The Countryside and Rights of Way Act came into force at the end of 2000 with,as part of its content, new provisions relating to public access to the English and Welsh countryside. In this paper we review the main elements of the Act and assess its meaning in relation to citizenship, territoriality and the place of land in English law and society. We invoke Mauss's (1954)concept of Gift to explain the process of brokerage being made over access a…
Digging-up’ Utopia? Space, practice and land use heritage
Multi-Service Outlets in Rural England: The Co-location of Disparate Services
Networked space? The challenge of meaningful participation and the new spatial planning in England
Over recent years there has been a series of government initiatives that have impacted directly and indirectly on the United Kingdom (UK) planning system. These include a programme of regional devo
The Country Code and the ordering of countryside citizenship
The Negotiation of Leisure Citizenship: Leisure Constraints, Moral Regulation and the Mediation of Rural Place
This paper extends the constraints of leisure literature by demonstrating how materials are circulated to regulate and constrain leisure behaviour in the countryside. It is argued that constraints in the form of moral regulation should be recognised as part of the constraints literature. The development of the Country Code in England 1 1. The Code itself was originally known as the Country Code, although in its more recent incarnations it has bee…
Same As It Ever Was? 1 Reflections on a Practitioner Roundtable on Participation in England
Reflecting Planning Practice & Research's broad readership, we wanted this edition to consider participation issues as seen by practitioners. With this in mind we brought together a roundtable of p
Why Bother with Good Works? The Relevance of Public Participation(s) in Planning in a Post-collaborative Era
The concern to ensure public participation or community engagement within and in support of spatial planning has been an ongoing and widely aired topic since at least the 1960s. The basis and justi
LUC Duerloo. Dynasty and Piety: Archduke Albert (1598-1621) and Habsburg Political Culture in an Age of Religious Wars
Journal Article Luc Duerloo. Dynasty and Piety: Archduke Albert (1598–1621) and Habsburg Political Culture in an Age of Religious Wars. Get access Luc Duerloo. Dynasty and Piety: Archduke Albert (1598–1621) and Habsburg Political Culture in an Age of Religious Wars.Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2012. Pp. xvi, 592. $154.95. Geoffrey Parker Geoffrey Parker Ohio State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Shared Ownership and Affordable Housing: A Political Solution in Search of a Planning Justification
Planners in England routinely include shared ownership (SO) housing in the affordable housing element of new developments. Government policies in a number of European countries have also backed intermediate housing market mechanisms as a solution to housing affordability. The rhetoric of such mechanisms makes claims about its social progressiveness, its role in facilitating socio-economic mobility and helping people move from rented accommodation…
Taking Stock of Neighbourhood Planning in England 2011–2016
Neighbourhood planning (NP) as enabled by the 2011 Localism Act in England has precipitated a considerable literature discussing its potential, limitations and likely shortcomings referenced against government rhetoric and the reporting of initial experiences of the process. This paper provides an overview of the current literature on neighbourhood planning and sets out how it has been received and practised across England drawing on empirical ev…
Indoor Particulate Matter From Smoker Homes Induces Bacterial Growth, Biofilm Formation, and Impairs Airway Antimicrobial Activity. A Pilot Study
Background Particulate matter (PM) air pollution causes deleterious health effects; however, less is known about health effects of indoor air particulate matter (IAP). Objective To understand whether IAP influences distinct mechanisms in the development of respiratory tract infections, including bacterial growth, biofilm formation, and innate immunity. Additionally, we tested whether IAP from Iowa houses of subjects with and without recent respir…
The Future of the Planning Profession
This Interface emerged from a symposium on the future of the planning profession held at the University of Reading in September 2019. This reflected on present new challenges concerning the means, political standing, and substantive goals of planning across the globe. Some issues discussed are longer-run and continually shifting. The conditions and tasks faced by planning have morphed, as have the types of people and sectoral balance involved in …
Entangling voluntarism, leisure time and political work: The governmentalities of neighbourhood planning in England
Neighbourhood planning was the first volunteer-led statutory planning tool to be created in the UK. Whilst it has provoked debate and critique covering numerous practical and theoretical aspects, little attention has been paid to the actual experience and motives of the volunteers who spend their leisure time by volunteering to prepare a plan. Given the range of leisure activities that have been shaped in the context of a neo-liberalised policy e…
Institutional liminality, ideological pluralism and the pragmatic behaviours of a ‘transition entrepreneur’
Governmental Logics in Commercialised Planning Practices. The Case of Local Authority Pre-Application Negotiations in the English Planning System
The paper provides an empirical review of a widely used tool in the English planning system – pre-application discussions (‘pre-apps’) and a theoretical exposition of governmental ‘logics’ that underpin neoliberal-informed planning reforms. We present five logic frames of growth, efficiency, commercialisation, participation and quality, and apply these to pre-application negotiation practice, to highlight how Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) are…
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