Policy and Politics, Vol. 7 No.2 (1979), 123-142 123 The Implementation of Urban and Regional Planning Policies Janet Lewis and Rob Flynn In May 1978 the Planning Policy Analysis Unit of the Department of the Environment commissioned a feasibility study from a consortium of staff from the Policy Studies Institute, the Urban and Regional Studies Unit at Kent University and the School for Advanced Urban Studies in Bristol. 1 The Department's concern was with the problems of implementing urban and regional planning and they wished to commission a research programme
homes. It seems that the overall population density is not the critical factor, but the density in homes is, which again correlates with income and education. In sum, the conditions related to social inequality seem to be decisive, more so than the compactness of the city as built form. Implications for urban and regional planning In the data presented, we do not find support for the argument that the compact city model should be replaced in the face of the present and possible future pandemics. In the same vein, we do not observe a better adaptation of car
Policy and Politics, Vol. 11No.1 (1983)87-98 CAN REGIONAL PLANNING WORK: Experiences from a Research Project on the Implementation of Spatial Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany* Manfred Konukiewitz Introduction Until the fairly recent past, physical planners in Germany were not con- cerned about implementation. They had little reason to worry. Town planning has traditionally not gone much beyond land-use planning by regulating the kinds and the extent of permitted land uses, albeit with a sophisticated instrument set.' When town planning originated in
This book explores cities and the intra-regional relational dynamics often overlooked by urban scholars, and it challenges common representations of urban development successes and failures.
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