Future for Planners

Ben Clifford is Professor of Spatial Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.Zan Gunn is Senior Lecturer of Planning at Newcastle University.Andy Inch is Senior Lecturer of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield.Abigail Schoneboom is Lecturer in Urban Planning at Newcastle University.Jason Slade is Lecturer in Planning at the University of Sheffield.Malcolm Tait is Professor of Planning at the University of Sheffield.Geoff Vigar is Professor of Urban Planning at Newcastle University.

• Part 1: Contexts1. Introduction: The Changing Organisational Contexts for Planning and Why It Matters2. Public and Private in Postwar British Planning3. The Public Interest and Planning’s Contested Purposes4. Organisational Settings and Everyday PracticesPart 2: Conditions5. Privatisation and the Contemporary Landscape of Planning Provision in the UK6. Commodification and Casualisation: Consultancies and Agency Staff in UK Planning7. Commercialisation and Planning8. Twenty-First-Century Planning Work and WorkplacesPart 3: Consequences9. Professionalism and Planning10. Realising the Public Interest in Planning?11. Conclusions: Reorganising the Future of Public Interest Planning?

“The authors provide a considered and empirically grounded account of the state of planning in a period where multiple pressures have been ramped-up. Clearly the value of good planning has been underestimated for some time. This very well-written account should be of great interest to policy makers as well as academic researchers.” Gavin Parker, University of Reading