Review: The Political Culture of Planning: American Land Use Planning in Comparative Perspective

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
P Hall
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The Political ◽  
Culture Of Planning

Disablism, Planning, and the Built Environment

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
R F Imrie ◽  
P E Wells
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Uk

In the last decade access for disabled people to public buildings has become an important part of the political agenda. Yet, one of the main forms of discrimination which still persists against disabled people is an inaccessible built environment. In particular, statutory authorities have been slow to acknowledge the mobility and access needs of disabled people, and the legislative base to back up local authority policies remains largely ineffectual and weak. In this paper, the interrelationships between disability and the built environment are considered by focusing on the role of the UK land-use planning system in securing access provision for disabled people.

Limited Liberalism

2018 ◽  
pp. 179-198
Author(s):  
Roman David ◽  
Ian Holliday
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The Political ◽  
Hybrid Regimes

This chapter focuses on puzzling issues arising from the explorations undertaken in preceding chapters, and captures them in the notion of limited liberalism. It presents this concept as a critical analytical tool for understanding the nature of Myanmar’s transition. It opens by describing some contradictions that emerged from our exploration of Myanmar in reform, sets them in comparative perspective, and probes their limits or boundaries. It then devises the concept of limited liberalism, exposes its assumptions, and examines it as a property of the political culture of hybrid regimes. Finally, it returns to empirical study to investigate liberalism, illiberalism, and limited liberalism in our case. It concludes by using limited liberalism to chart the prospects for liberal democracy in Myanmar.

Public Choice Theory and the Politics of Urban Containment: Voter-Centred versus Special-Interest Explanations

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pennington
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Planning System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Choice Theory ◽  
Urban Containment ◽  
British Planning

The policy of urban containment has lain at the heart of British land-use planning for over fifty years. The author examines the political dynamics underlying the commitment to this policy through the lens of public choice theory. The analysis suggests that macroelectoral shifts in favour of environmental protection have provided a push towards restrictive land-use planning and an emphasis on urban containment in recent years. Evidence of a ‘voluntary’ approach to regulation in other areas of environmental concern, however, suggests that the peculiar focus on containment is attributable to the political power exerted by a coalition of special interests and public sector bureaucrats who benefit most from this core of the British planning system.

Den Wald ihr sollet lassen stahn! (Essay)

2011 ◽  
Vol 162 (8) ◽  
pp. 240-243
Author(s):  
Benedikt Loderer
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Added Value ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Coalition ◽  
Cost Transparency ◽  
Orderly Fashion

The author gives his reflections on the changes in the Swiss landscape in answer to questions posed by the editor. But beforehand he establishes the fact that there are two relationships to the forest, the sentimental and the practical, and that these two correspond in no respect. The change in the landscape has two causes: the intensification of use and our prosperity. Approximately two million more inhabitants plus double the surface required for habitation equals urban sprawl. The laws governing land use planning are helpless to prevent this. They are nothing but an attempt to carry out urban sprawl in an orderly fashion. Only a consistent levy on the added value and cost transparency could stop urban sprawl. This is however prevented by the political coalition of the promoters of urban sprawl. The clearance ban must continue to be in force. Only projects tied up with a given location can be permitted. This must be understood as places offering locational advantages. Should forest be cleared for urban development then, in addition to reforestation, the same surface area of building land won by the clearance must be rezoned as non-building land in the agglomeration. We have too much money, that is what does most damage to the forest.

Planning for engineering geologists

1987 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
D. H. Worth
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Engineering Geology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Historical Outline ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
Plan Making

AbstractCommencing with a brief historical outline of past planning of towns this paper considers in outline the land use planning process as decision making in the use of land. It considers the legal basis for planning in England and Wales (parallel legislation exists in Scotland) and discusses the functions of planning authorities in plan making, control of development and research and intelligence. It comments on the qualifications and education of planners with particular reference to recent changes of particular relevance to communication of technical (particularly engineering geology) information to planners. It indicates the political nature of planning decision making by elected representation.

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