Town and Country Planning articles from August 2003

Town and Country Planning archives from August 2003

The plot as art.(People & Ideas)
August 1, 2003... Fifteen years ago, when David Crouch and I brought out our book on The Allotment: Its Landscape and Culture, we drew attention to the paradoxes in the perception of allotment gardens. To the municipal mind, they are a messy bit of work in...

In a lather about polycentricity.(Planning World)
August 1, 2003... Europe is all in a lather about polycentricity. Well, better rephrase that: you might find it hard to strike up an animated conversation on the topic in the average Mediterranean poolside bar this time of year. But Brussels has certainly been...

Back to the future--the Garden City centenary: Mervyn Miller looks back on a hundred years of Letchworth Garden City, and forward to the lessons that the century-old paradigm for community planning still has to offer for the new settlements of the future.(Letchworth Garden City)
August 1, 2003... 'I think Mr Ebenezer Howard is greatly to be congratulated upon the fact that within five short years his visionary hopes for tomorrow have become the almost fulfilled realisation of today... The fortunate community living on this estate will...

Letchworth: the First Garden City.
August 1, 2003... Second Edition By Mervyn Miller Phillimore, Chichester, 2002, ISBN 1 86077 213 7, HB, 280pp, 25.00 [pounds sterling] The TCPA has already celebrated its centenary, recalling its origins as a late-Victorian pressure group, known then as the...

No mere marginal issue.(Rural planning)
August 1, 2003... In the second of two articles on low-impact development in the countryside, Simon Fairlie argues for the gradual introduction of criteria-based policies allowing for low-impact residential development in the countryside where a need can be...

Working together in England's market towns: James Shorten reports on recent research carried out for the Countryside Agency into more effective working and linkages between the statutory planning system and the Agency's Market Towns Initiative.(Rural economy)
August 1, 2003... Nearly three years ago the Rural White Papers (1) identified market towns as hubs of rural life: foci for housing and economic development, service centres, transport nodes, and centres for culture and heritage. The Countryside Agency's Market...

Top-up, bottom-down--a defining moment in English planning.(Rural economy)
August 1, 2003... For all the talk of devolution, the power of the centre is nevertheless being strengthened, but we could yet shift town and country planning away from being simply a means of locating wealth, towards a system that more fully addresses the needs...

Urban renaissance--lessons from Turin. Turin's current renaissance offers some real inspiration--and an alternative model to some of the American cities that have influenced urban policy in the UK.(Urban Renaissance)
August 1, 2003... The most important messages to come out of the relative success of the Mediterranean rim cities in recent years are the way liveability is now leading to wealth creation, rather than the other way round, and the way public investment in high...

'Environmentalism' in Britain today--how do people value the environment?(Environmentalism)
August 1, 2003... In the second of a short series of articles on how far the 'new environmentalism' has impacted on householder behaviour, Stewart Barr, Andrew Gilg, and Nicholas Ford examine survey evidence on whether committed environmentalists have undergone...

'Environmentalism' in Britain today--attitudes towards environmentalism.(Environmentalism)
August 1, 2003... In the last of a short series of articles on how far the 'new environmentalism' has impacted on householder behaviour, Stewart Barr, Andrew Gilg, and Nicholas Ford examine individual attitudes towards helping the environment and look at where...

Drink till you drop? Peter Jones, David Hillier, and Daphne Comfort look at the recommendations of the ODPM Select Committee report on the evening and late-night economy and the urban renaissance.(Evening economy)
August 1, 2003... The House of Commons ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and Regions Committee report on The Evening Economy and the Urban Renaissance, (1) published on 1 August 2003, and the earlier evidence presented to the Committee (2) provide some...

Shaping national space in Scotland: Greg Lloyd and Deborah Peel examine the moves towards the development of a national planning framework for Scotland.(North--& West--of Watford)
August 1, 2003... Devolution has led to a rethinking of the institutional and policy arrangements for land use planning across the UK. Whatever the desired land use planning outcomes, the means of getting there are now varying across the devolved landscape,...