All Planned Out?
The Worldwide Impact of the British Town and Country Planning System
18 and 19 May 2007
Kate Moorcock-Abley
Director of audacity, and editor of James Heartfield's Let's Build! - Why we need five million new homes in the next 10 years (2006)
Some arguments from the chair, pre-conference:
Multi-cultural racism, politically dead patricians, and the
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9.40 to 11.00 on Friday 18 May 2007
60 years on - The impact of the 1947 British Town and Country Planning Act
In this session, chaired by Kate, Gideon Amos, Rynd Smith, and James Stevens will discuss the origins of the 1947 British Town and Country Planning Act, their view of the successes and failures of six decades of planning, and prospects for the future at a time of policy innovation.
Gideon Amos, Chief Executive of the Town and Country
Planning Association, member of the Planning Advisory Group at the Department
for Communities and Local Government, co-author of A Programme for
Sustainable Communities, and editor of Connecting England - A Framework
for Regional Development - Delivering sustainable communities - through
planning
Rynd Smith, Head of Policy and Practice at the Royal
Town Planning Institute, and member of the Planning Institute of Australia -
Planning: From Collective Vision to Statutory System
James Stevens, Research and Policy Officer,
Conservation Department, English Heritage - Conserving privilege? -
Conservation areas and social equity
60 years on - The impact of the 1947 British Town and Country Planning Act
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What priorities do we want reflected in land use
planning?
Has the notion of a distinct town and country become
unsustainable?
Can planners reconcile government policies with where and how
people actually want to live?
Is it justified to describe policies based on constraining
building activity as "planning"?
Introduction
Let's Build!
Why we need five million
new homes in the next
10 years
With a foreword by Robert Bruegmann
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