Enabling Participatory Planning
Planning Aid and Advocacy in Neoliberal Times
1st Edition
Published on 28. March 2018
144 pages
978-1-4473-4140-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England.
In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support and include the most vulnerable in society is more acute than ever. However, forms of Advocacy Planning, the progressive concept championed for this purpose since the 1960s, is under threat from neoliberalisation.
Rather than abandoning advocacy, the book asserts that only through sustained critical engagement will issues of exclusion be positively tackled and addressed. The authors propose neo-advocacy planning as the critical lens through which to effect positive change. This, they argue, will need to draw on a co-production model maintained through a well-resourced special purpose organisation set up to mobilise and resource planning intermediaries whose role it is to activate, support and educate those without the resources to secure such advocacy themselves.
In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support and include the most vulnerable in society is more acute than ever. However, forms of Advocacy Planning, the progressive concept championed for this purpose since the 1960s, is under threat from neoliberalisation.
Rather than abandoning advocacy, the book asserts that only through sustained critical engagement will issues of exclusion be positively tackled and addressed. The authors propose neo-advocacy planning as the critical lens through which to effect positive change. This, they argue, will need to draw on a co-production model maintained through a well-resourced special purpose organisation set up to mobilise and resource planning intermediaries whose role it is to activate, support and educate those without the resources to secure such advocacy themselves.
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University of Reading
Gavin Parker is Professor of Planning Studies at the University of Reading. Professor Parker maintains a strong interest in citizenship, participation and governance in land, planning and development. Recent research has centred on neighbourhood planning in England.
Gavin Parker is Professor of Planning Studies at the University of Reading. Professor Parker maintains a strong interest in citizenship, participation and governance in land, planning and development. Recent research has centred on neighbourhood planning in England.
University of Reading
Emma Street is Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Governance at the University of Reading. Dr Street's research interests cut across urban governance, policy and politics, and planning, architecture and urban design.
Emma Street is Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Governance at the University of Reading. Dr Street's research interests cut across urban governance, policy and politics, and planning, architecture and urban design.
Content
Introduction: engaging in planning
Neoliberal times and participation in planning
Advocacy planning: then and now
Advocacy and Planning Aid in England
Neo-advocacy and contemporary issues in progressive planning
Conclusion: embedding neo-advocacy in planning systems
Neoliberal times and participation in planning
Advocacy planning: then and now
Advocacy and Planning Aid in England
Neo-advocacy and contemporary issues in progressive planning
Conclusion: embedding neo-advocacy in planning systems
