Urban Planning and the British New Right

<p>Did the 1980s and 1990s see the death of planning?<br>Exposing the myth that has grown up around Thatcherism leading experts from a wide range of land-use policy areas examine the changes that were brought about in planning and the environment during the 1980s and 1990s and argue that much less was achieved than expected.<br><em>Urban Planning and the British New Right</em> questions common assumptions about planning practices under Thatcherism concluding that the complex relationship of power between central local and national government requires a sensitivity to change that is inclusive rather than doctrinal. This is a book that says as much about the administration institutions and processes of planning as it does about Mrs Thatcher's attempts to change it.</p>