Spatial Planning and the New Localism

This book assesses the transition from New Labour’s ‘Spatial Planning’ approach to the Coalition Government’s preferred ‘Localism’ approach. This collection contains chapters looking at the planning system overall with a focus on factors such as sustainability and planning, new approaches to infrastructure planning, and the critical interface between urban policy, local economic development and planning._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Planning Practice and Research.