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  • Neighbourhood Planning in Practice

    by Gavin Parker, Kat Salter, Matthew Wargent ...
    Series series Concise Guides to Planning
    Neighbourhood Planning (NP), introduced by the Localism Act of 2011, is the right for communities to decide the future of the places where they live and work. This book examines the experience of neighbourhood planners, analysing what communities have achieved, how they have done so and what went well or badly. Comparing NP with other forms of community planning and highlighting the main lessons ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Key Concepts in Planning

    by Gavin Parker, Joe Doak ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "I have been looking for a book which does this for ages! It provides a clear explanation of the different elements and concepts which underpin how the planning system works and which are fundamental to the operation of the UK system. It also provides good guidance on further reading. A real assett to anyone wanting to understand the nature of planning in the UK"- Dr Catherine Hammond, ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Rural Planning Futures

    Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland

    Edited by Mark Scott, John Sturzaker, Nick Gallent, Gavin Parker, Amy Burnett, Ian Mell ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland. The book evaluates current planning processes and explores the prospects for an enhanced, cross-sectoral and holistic future practice that mediates rural change towards more resilient and sustainable outcomes. Rural places and planning have, for too long, been viewed as ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Slow Planning?

    Timescapes, Power and Democracy

    by Mark Dobson, Gavin Parker ...
    A deep exploration on 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 policy makers involved in planning, academics and students studying planning and related disciplines.It presents time as a pervasive form of power that is used to shape democratic practices, and questions ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Contemporary Planning Practice

    Skills, Specialisms and Knowledge

    Edited by Gavin Parker, Emma Street ...
    Series series Planning, Environment, Cities
    Planning today is an increasingly complex system of specialisms, and this brand new introduction is the first textbook to offer both a broad overview of each core area in planning, alongside the skills necessary to combine each specialism in order to make sustainable and efficient planning decisions. In so doing, it gives students a unique glimpse into the realities of working in planning today. ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside

    Rights, Culture, Land and the Environment

    by Gavin Parker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside defines citizenship in relation to the rural environment. The book expands and explores a widened conceptualization of citizenship and sets out a range of examples where citizenship, at different scales, has been expressed in and over the rural environment. Part of the analysis includes a review of the political construction and use of citizenship ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Planning and Knowledge

    How New Forms of Technocracy Are Shaping Contemporary Cities

    by Samuel Moessner, Leighton Evans, Rob Kitchin, Sue Brownill, Matthew Wargent, Emma Street, Gavin Parker, Rachel Weber, Stan Majoor, Michael Hebbert ...
    This book uses an international perspective and draws on a wide range of new conceptual and empirical material to examine the sources of conflict and cooperation within the different landscapes of knowledge that are driving contemporary urban change. Based on the premise that historically established systems of regulation and control are being subject to unprecedented pressures, scholars ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Localism and Neighbourhood Planning

    Power to the People?

    by Paul Burton, Camille Gardesse, Simon A. Pemberton, Claire Colomb, Carol Ludwig, Gavin Parker, Amy Burnett ...
    Governments around the world are seeing the locality as a key arena for effecting changes in governance, restructuring state/civil society relations and achieving sustainable growth. This is the first book to critically analyse this shift towards localism in planning through exploring neighbourhood planning; one of the fastest growing, most popular and most contentious contemporary planning ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Enabling Participatory Planning

    Planning Aid and Advocacy in Neoliberal Times

    by Gavin Parker, Emma Street ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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    by Alison Gilchrist, Marilyn Taylor ...
    Series series Short Guides
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    by Gilchrist, Alison, Taylor, Marilyn ...
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    The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it. This is a key text for all ... Read more

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  • Managing the City

    Edited by John Diamond, Joyce Liddle, Alan Southern, Alan Townsend ...
    Taking a problem based approach to regeneration management, this exciting new book, authored by renowned academics and practitioners, examines how issues of ethics, equality, sustainability, local governance, civic renewal and learning are addressed within the areas of social and economic development and transformation.The issues covered here have significant implications for the ways in which ... Read more

    $87.99 USD