Reconsidering Localism

Simin Davoudi is Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning and Associate Director of the Institute for Sustainability at Newcastle University, UK. She is past President of the Association of the European Schools of Planning, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, expert advisor for the UK Government and EU Commission, and member of national and international research assessment panels. Her research focuses on the interface of society and ecology. Ali Madanipour is Professor of Urban Design and Director of Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. His latest books include Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe, and Urban Design, Space and Society.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Part One: The Local in Localism Chapter 2: Localism: Institutions, territories, representations Chapter 3: Paradoxes of local planning in contested societies Chapter 4: Localism agendas and post-political trends: Neighbourhood policy trajectories in Denver Chapter 5: Localism and the ‘post-social’ governmentality Part Two: Localism and Democracy Chapter 6: Civic capacity, place governance and progressive localism Chapter 7: The Promise of democracy? Civic enterprise, localism and the transformation of democratic capitalism Chapter 8: The community capacity to plan: The disproportionate requirements of the new English neighbourhood planning initiative Chapter 9: Is small really beautiful: The legitimacy of neighbourhood planning? Part Three: Localism and Sustainability Chapter 10: Avoiding collapse: An agenda for degrowth and relocalisation Chapter 11: ‘Localism’ and the environment: Effective re-scaling for sustainability transition? Chapter 12: Localism, scale and place in claims for sustainable urbanism: Moving beyond the idealist and materialist Chapter 13: Localism and rural development Chapter 14: Epilogue: Promises and pitfalls of localism