Town and Country Planning

The 2001 Annual General Meeting of the Town and Country Planning Association was held on 10 July in...

I hammered my keyboard for two decades in the depths of cereal country, but have finally landed in...

Cities are coming back. That seems to be the message from the latest population figures. Ken Livingstone's planning...

`I can tell you today that we have decided to introduce legislation to create Business Improvement Districts. These...

Escaping one of the intensely hot spells that characterised this summer to the equal heat of the South...

The Scottish Executive recently announced a review of strategic planning for Scotland. (1) This marks an important step...

For the past six years I have been combining the role of planning academic with that of local...

Allotment gardens -- those contested vernacular green spaces within our cities where private enthusiasms find public expression --...

A tidal wave of hype about the `new economy' of electronic commerce and the information technology revolution crashed...

Contemporary cities can be thought of as constructions which support mobilities and flow to more or less distant...

The UK has recently seen the worst flooding since records began, causing hundreds of millions of pounds of...

Planning committees play a critical role in the UK town and country planning system. Since the nationalisation of...

A recurring problem in policymaking is the reluctance of policy-makers and politicians to invest in the evaluation of...

There is a growing policy interest in community self-help, which aims to nurture trust and reciprocity, promote voluntary...

Take a look at the small print in the draft economic strategy for London -- better known as...

As is now increasingly documented and debated in the national media, the telecommunications sector is undergoing constant and...

The Amsterdam Treaty made sustainable development one of the core objectives of the European Union. The Helsinki European...

A Government that proclaims its commitment to joined-up thinking should not complain about suspicions that its proposed `simplification'...

Planners trying to interpret how employment trends may impact on transport, the location of housing and employment, and...

Government research aimed at finding more ways to persuade students on to school buses and out of their...