New Labour and Planning: From New Right to New Left

by Philip Allmendinger and Phil Allmendinger

Book Overview

Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour. After a slow start in which Labour's view of planning owed more to a neo-liberal, rolled back state model reminiscent of the New Right the Government began to appreciate that many of its wider objectives including economic development, climate change, democratic renewal, social justice and housing affordability intersected with and were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415597498
• ISBN13: 9780415597494
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"