Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning: Spatial Governance in a Fragmented Nation

Planning is essential to delivering environmental sustainability, social inclusion, improved and integrated public transport, economic development and urban regeneration and must be analysed in respect of other aspects of New Labour’s regional project, not least the government’s concern with business competitiveness. At another level, the current reforms which privilege regional scale policy interventions will inevitably require changes in the divisions of powers and responsibilities at local and national levels. In other words, devolution involves a major ‘rescaling’ of both spatial planning and development, which is unfolding rapidly and unevenly across Britain. This book addresses these issues, highlighting important case studies and drawing on the experience of a team of eminent contributors each with a different perspective on territory, identity and space in a devolved UK.