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    Build over there : understanding the government's role in shaping our cities / Hamish Barrell.

    • Title:Build over there : understanding the government's role in shaping our cities / Hamish Barrell.
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    • Author/Creator:Barrell, Hamish, author.
    • Published/Created:Bury St. Edmunds : Arena Books, 2017.
      ©2017
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:City planning.
      City planning--Economic aspects.
      City planning--Social aspects.
      City planning--Environmental aspects.
    • Description:357 pages ; 24 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-357).
    • ISBN:9781909421882 (pbk.)
      190942188X (pbk.)
    • Contents:Part I
      Progress, Urbanisation, and its consequences
      Introduction
      The traditional community
      The nature of progress
      The new community
      The normative approach
      Part II- The reason for cities
      TH e location of settlements
      Resource use beyond city
      Part III - Justifying the planning system
      Pre-Industrial origins - Industrial pre-cursor
      Justification of state intervention - land use controls - Evolution of democratic planning systems
      Planning systems differences
      The modern purpose of planning
      Planning for the urban form
      Planning tools: funding, regulation or compulsory purchase
      Central planning
      Politicisation of planning
      Politics and the market
      Alternatives to planning
      Part IV - Implementing planning
      Agencies, politics and industrial roles
      Pan-national government
      national government
      Local government
      Regional government
      Skills, law and process
      Plan making
      Development management
      Property values and compensation
      Environmental management
      Public participation
      Beyond consultation
      Success, failure and realism
      Part V - From villages to vanity spaces
      The role of ethics and morality in planning
      Culture
      Public space
      Employment, poverty and economic planning
      Accommodation and living arrangements
      Suburbs or high rises
      Third dimension
      Part VI - From streets to the sea
      Transportation and efficiency
      Landuse control: past, present and future
      Managing open space
      Part VII- Crisis Planning
      Crisis, natural hazards, disasters and resilience
      Security, crime and warfare
      Conclusions: A view to the future
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