This book provides a multi-disciplinary study of territory, identity and space in a devolved UK, through the lens of spatial planning. It draws together leading internationally renowned researchers from a variety of disciplines to address the implications of devolution upon spatial planning and the rescaling of UK politics. Each contributor offers a different perspective on the core issues in planning today in the context of New Labour’s regional project, particularly the government’s concern with business competitiveness, and key themes are illustrated with important case studies throughout.
Author(s): Allmendinger
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 408
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of illustrations......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 16
Part 1: Theoretical contexts for territory, identity and spatial planning......Page 26
1. Territory, identity and spatial planning......Page 28
2. Nationality, devolution and policy development in the United Kingdom......Page 47
3. The theoretical challenge of devolution and constitutional change in the United Kingdom......Page 60
4. Towards a transnational space of governance?: The European Union as a challenging arena for UK planning......Page 72
5. Territory, integration and spatial planning......Page 89
Part 2: Studies of territorial and spatial planning......Page 106
6. The contested creation of new state spaces: Contrasting conceptions of regional strategy building in North West England......Page 108
7. Advancing together in Yorkshire and Humberside?......Page 131
8. Spatial governance in contested territory: The case of Northern/North of Ireland......Page 148
9. Redefining 'the space that is Wales': Place, planning and the Wales Spatial Plan......Page 164
10. Escaping policy gravity: The scope for distinctiveness in Scottish spatial planning......Page 178
11. London: A Millennium-long battle, a millennial truce?......Page 192
Part 3: Institutions of governace and substantive policy roles......Page 208
12. Pressure for housing in the English regions: Back to the future......Page 210
13. Modernising transport planning in the English regions......Page 230
14. The Welsh Assembly and economic governance in Wales......Page 244
15. The quest for sustainable development at the Greater London Authority......Page 262
16. We'll have more please, but not now and not like that: Public attitudes to the Assembly in Northern Ireland......Page 280
Part 4: Complexities and interdependencies in spatial governance......Page 296
17. Government, governance and decentralisation......Page 298
18. City-regionalism: The social reconstruction of an idea in practice......Page 310
19. Global localism: Interpreting and implementing new localism in the UK......Page 330
20. Building new subjectivities: Devolution, regional identities and the re-scaling of politics......Page 345
21. Mapping the geographies of UK devolution: Institutional legacies, territorial fixes and network topologies......Page 360
22. Identifying the determinants of the form of government, governance and spatial plan making......Page 378
Index......Page 391
