Town and Country Planning articles from January 2002

Town and Country Planning archives from January 2002

Learning from history about local life. (People & Ideas).
January 1, 2002... Few of us are likely to have access to Volume II of the Cambridge Urban History of Britain, edited by Martin Daunton, covering the period 1840-1950. Published last year, it has 944 pages and costs 90 [pounds sterling]. Yet such a vast book must...

Problems in a small island paradise. (Planning World).
January 1, 2002... If it qualifies to join the European Union in 2004, which it must do by the end of this year, Malta will achieve an instant record: it will become the EU's smallest state, displacing Luxembourg from the position it has held ever since the 1957...

Of outings and outlets. (Trading Places).
January 1, 2002... If you relied on textbooks about shopping behaviour, you might think that only the poverty-stricken `disadvantaged' or `subsistence' consumer felt it necessary to buy goods as cheaply as possible. On returning from the January sales, however,...

Growing Milton Keynes. (Off the Fence).
January 1, 2002... The Panel that conducted the Public Examination into the Draft Regional Planning Guidance for the South East two years ago produced a report -- the `Crow Report' -- which recommended four areas for plan-led growth: the Milton Keynes, Ashford,...

Travelling towards European good practice? Petros Ieromonachou examines the Commission for Integrated Transport's study of European best practice in delivering integrated transport. (topics).
January 1, 2002... Even before the collapse of Railtrack, the advent of Stephen Byers, or the wrangles over London Underground public-private partnerships, the transport systems in mainland Europe were being held up as examples for the UK to emulate. But is it...

Further news from the Cambridge sub-region: following on from his article in the October 2001 issue of T&CP, Wyndham Thomas provides the first in a series of periodic progress reports on the development programme for the Cambridge sub-region, and on the new town proposed as a fundamental element of that programme. (topics).
January 1, 2002... Last October's issue of T&CP carried a feature with the title `City-region planning and a new town for Cambridge'. (1) It described the planning framework for the city-region proposed in RPG6: Regional Planning Guidance for East Anglia to 2016;...

Land assembly in the urban renaissance: for such an important aspect of urban renewal and development, little attention has been paid to the question of land assembly, but there are alternative methods beyond the compulsory purchase option, says Nathaniel Lichfield, who outlines the findings of a recent major study. (feature).
January 1, 2002... The Urban White Paper, Our Towns and Cities: The Future: Delivering and an Urban Renaissance, (1) is a truly majestic document. A pithy aphorism sets the tone in the Deputy Prime Minister's foreword: `How we live our lives is shaped by where we...

Sustainability appraisal -- delivering more sustainable regional planning guidance? David Counsell and Graham Haughton report on the findings of recent research on the effectiveness of sustainability appraisal of regional planning guidance. (feature).
January 1, 2002... Sustainability appraisal is a method of policy appraisal which aims to ensure that consideration of sustainable development objectives is ingrained in all stages of the strategy-making process. (1) It has its roots in strategic environmental...

Development strategies for a real economy: Peter Townroe examines how the preparation of local economic development strategies by district-level local government has evolved over the last 25 years, and how it may develop in future. (feature).
January 1, 2002... A significant feature of policy development in OECD countries in the 1980s and, even more so, in the 1990s has been a more active involvement by agencies of the state in local economic life. (1) Together with a more sensitive application of...

A suburban village: John Delafons describes a small enclave in the borough of Ealing in west London which has over the past two centuries or so acquired many of the characteristics of an `urban village', without any help from the planning system. (feature).
January 1, 2002... `Haven Village' is not a name to be found on any map or plan. But it certainly exists as a place. I have just invented the name `Haven Village' to describe this interesting area. The village is clustered around Haven Green, which does...

Tackling social exclusion in a consumer society: Colin C. Williams explores who defines themselves as excluded from consumer society and what can be done to tackle their exclusion. (feature).
January 1, 2002... In recent years, UK policy-makers have focused upon social exclusion largely, albeit not exclusively, in relation to work. `Inclusion through employment' has come to dominate the Government's policy agenda. However, if social exclusion is taken...

Japan gears up for revolution. (Local Exchange).
January 1, 2002... Something is stirring in Japan. Whether it's the bizarre flatness of their economy, weighed down by corporate debt, or whether it's something to do with the ability of the Japanese to get behind a new idea, isn't very clear. But whatever the...

Cambridgeshire links. (WriteBack).
January 1, 2002... David Grove (`WriteBack', T&CP, Dec. 2001) questions my `uncritical endorsement of a guided bus as the main form of public transport between the new town and Cambridge' in my article about the sub-region and the proposed new town just north of...