Janice Morphet is a visiting professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. A fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute, she has been chief executive of a local authority, head of university school of planning and landscape, a senior adviser on the role of local government in central government and a consultant and was a member of the planning committee for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

• Introduction;Sector and Scales;Theories, tools and techniques;Strategy and Planning;managing resources in planning: people and communications;Managing Resources for planning; finance;Managing planning processes;managing planning; projects, plans and programmes;Sustainable Management and Risk;personal management in planning.

"As this book explains, effective leadership and management are crucial to successful planning. All those who aspire to leadership positions in planing would do well to heed its advice." David Adams, University of Glasgow; "Good leadership in planning is recognised as a vital quality for the creation of successful places. This comprehensive book gives public and private sector planners a real insight into how to achieve this in the context of a declining public sector in an increasingly privatised world." Janet Askew, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute 2015 and University of the West of England