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Spatial Planning, Devolution, and New Planning Spaces

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ID23318993
AuthorsPhil Allmendinger (University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Graham Haughton (0000-0002-0862-4884, University of Hull, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume28
Issue5
Pages803-818
Publication date2010-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning C Government and Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-774X • E-ISSN: 1472-3425
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1068/c09163
OpenAlexW1974978064
LanguageEN
Citations received108
References cited30

In this paper we put forward the case for viewing ‘spatial planning’ as a political resource, one which has been largely supportive of the rollout neoliberal approach of New Labour. Drawing on work on postpolitics, we argue that ironically the progressive credentials of spatial planning in terms of consensus building, policy integration, and the search for ‘win – win – win’ solutions may have helped script out oppositional voices. We then outline how the combination of changes to planning systems, devolution, and local government reform has not generated a ‘double dividend’ of greater planning powers devolving from new territorial administrations to local planning authorities. Instead a more complex process of creating new planning spaces has emerged after devolution. Five types of new planning spaces and spatial practices are identified, including new soft space forms of governance.

Corporate governance · Devolution (biology) · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Local government · Management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Spatial planning · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance

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