Planning in a Failing State

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"A well-developed, refreshing, and hopefully seminal critique of recent political rhetoric, 'reform', deregulation and tinkering by successive governments." Town Planning Review 'This book is a must-read for academics, students and planning professionals with an interest in understanding why things are so hard, and what can be done about it.' Town Planning Review 'An excellent and topical edited work that should prove invaluable to all those interested in understanding the turmoil of ill-conceived central government reforms, often subsequently abandoned, that have afflicted the English statutory planning system since election of the coalition government in 2010 and the succession of conservative administrations that followed. Covering a spectrum of topics from housing supply to infrastructure and associated procedural changes embracing 'localism' and local design codes yet intending to bypass both local planning authorities and communities through permitted development and new forms of zoning, the book admirably charts the failures not so much of planning but of the wider governance state in which it operates.' Mark Baker, University of Manchester