Mark Dobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4416720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Dobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobson |
| SIGNATURE | DOBSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8599-9797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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 …
Ben Clifford, Susannah Gunn, Andy Inch, Abigail Schoneboom, Jason Slade, Malcolm Tait and Geoff Vigar, The Future for Planners: Commercialisation, Professionalism and the Public Interest in the UK
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West
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…
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…
From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Ben Clifford, Susannah Gunn, Andy Inch, Abigail Schoneboom, Jason Slade, Malcolm Tait and Geoff Vigar, The Future for Planners: Commercialisation, Professionalism and the Public Interest in the UK
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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…
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 …
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