Contemporary Issues in 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