Deconstructing spatial planning: reinterpreting the articulation of a new ethos for English local planning

This article reviews recent debates about the emergence of “spatial planning” as a new ethos for English planning, suggesting that continued uncertainty around the term's use is partly caused by a failure to consider its emergence as the product of a contested political process. Drawing on an interpretive approach to policy analysis, the article goes on to show how this new organizing principle is a complex articulation of different and potentially contradictory reform impulses. The result is to destabilize the concept of spatial planning, showing how it has been constructed as an “empty signifier”, an unstable and tension-filled discursive stake in an ongoing politics of reform. Finally, it is argued that this has significant implications for the ways in which implementation success and failure should be understood and for analysis of planning reform initiatives and systems more widely

Supporting people Administrative guidance; October 2001; 3b. steady state guidance; glossary

Item is ring-bound. See also '1: Guidance overview; 2. Interim guidance' fm02/1056 and '3a: Steady state processes' fm02/1057Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:fm02/1058 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Housing Revenue Account manual

Loose leaf; CD ROM in a pocket at the front; also available via the Internet; this edition replaces the previous edition published in April 1994Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:Vfm02/5015 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Green spaces, better places Summary of the interim report of the Urban Green Spaces Taskforce

Also available via the InternetSIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:m01/42340 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

A new financial framework for local authority housing Resource accounting in the Housing Revenue Account; HRA subsidy and rent restructuring; a consultation paper

Consultation period ends - 8 October 2001Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:m01/30383 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Get on board An agenda for improving personal security in bus travel; guidance

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:m02/24531 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

Development on unstable land Annex 2: subsidence and planning

To be read in conjunction with annex 1, replaces and extends 'Minerals planning guidance note 12'Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:6509.252435(14 annex 2) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Vehicle standards and engineering research Compendium of research projects 2001/2002

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:3363.971495(2001/2002) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

Centres for excellence for integrated transport planning

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:m02/24344 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

Mixed-use development Practice and potential

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:m02/19819 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo