Town versus country in the 1940s: Planning the contested space of a city region in the aftermath of the Second World War

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The emergence of a new concept of regional planning during the inter-war years reflected attempts to determine the most appropriate spatial scale for the organization of planning in light of the rapid socio-economic and environmental change. Planners in early twentieth century argued that compact regions that contained both urban and rural elements would be more conductive to the achievement of effective planning for population decentralization, industrialization, transport development and the protection of countryside (Abercrombie 1959).

Postwar reconstruction

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Constructions of sustainability and spatial planning: The case of Dalton Flatts, County Durham, planning inquiry

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The constructions of sustainability within a land use planning event are explored. The discursive processes employed by key actors and agents in constructing concepts of sustainability during the local planning inquiry into a retail and leisure proposal in the District of Essington, Country Durham 'called in' by the Secretary of State for the Environment are presented.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, North Carolina, Legal/Government Regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Land use

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Fractal spaces for planning and governance

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Concepts of space within the planning literature, the issues they give rise to and the gaps that reveal are discussed. The notion of efractalsE borrowed from complexity theory is introduced and the way it consciously appears in planning practice has been illustrated.

Government expenditures, Government finance

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