The Regional Imperative
The Regional Imperative

Author: Urlan A. Wannop

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 1136037527

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Based on cases and interviews in Britain, Europe and the United States, this book explains the recurrence of regional planning and of initiatives in regional governance, in a wide range of advanced industrial countries. Providing an analysis of the nature of regional planning and governance, the book traces the development of regional planning and the institutions associated with it. It also looks at the way that regions have been changing their form under pressure from economic and political developments and examines how regional planning and governance has responded, comparing experience in the UK, the rest of Europe and the US. In concluding that regionalism is an imperative feature of politics in most countries, associated with almost any of the variety of forms of governance, the author offers a major appraisal of the significance of regional planning in an intemational context

Is There a Future for Regional Government?
Is There a Future for Regional Government?

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2006-03-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780215027849

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Is there a future for regional Government? : Session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Written Evidence

Metropolitan Planning in Britain
Metropolitan Planning in Britain

Author: Peter Roberts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1136035842

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Metropolitan Planning in Britain is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for almost two decades. Changes in population distribution, styles of local government, business practices, and attitudes to the environment have all had an impact on cities in recent years which planners and other policy makers must take into consideration. Based on a series of research projects and the activities of a study group supported by the Regional Studies Association, the book examines in detail nine major urban areas, their specific characters and requirements, and how metropolitan planning is adapting to fulfil those requirements. It also discuses the possible future evolution of metropolitan planning, especially in the light of new regional arrangements and devolution.

British Regionalism and Devolution
British Regionalism and Devolution

Author: Jonathan Bradbury

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 113603496X

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This contributors provide a range of perspectives on the increasingly central issues of state reform, European integration and British regionalism in the 1990s. Using case material, the contributors examine: the effects of state reform and European integration on British regionalism and the devolution debate; and the nature of recent central responses to the re-emergence of regional and devolution issues, with a particular focus on the recent policies of the Major governments and the policies of the Opposition parties. They also present some evidence which suggests that state reform and EC/EU developments have determined and accentuated important new trends in British regionalism, and underpin the plausibility of far-reaching regional and devolution reforms.