John Glasson is Professor of Environmental Planning, Research Director of the Impacts Assessment Unit (IAU) and co-director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) at Oxford Brookes University. He is author of An Introduction to Regional Planning. Tim Marshall is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Planning at Oxford Brookes University. He is a member of the IAU and his research is based across regional planning, the politics of planning and infrastructure and environment.

• Part 1: Context 1. Introduction 2. A Short History of UK Regional Planning Part 2: Theorising Regional Planning 3. Theorising Regional Planning: Processes 4. Theorising Regional Planning:Substantive Part 3: Evolving UK Practice 5. The New English Regional Planning 6. Regional Planning in Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland: The ‘Devolved’ System 7. Making and Executing Regional Spatial Plans 8. Components of Regional Planning: Economy 9. Components of Regional Planning: Housing 10. Components of Regional Planning: Transport 11. Components of Regional Planning: Environment 12. Processes and Politics in Regional Planning Part 4: Wider Prospects –European and Future 13. Regional Planning in a European Context 14. Conclusions

"This book is a compacted and highly structured study on regional planning in the UK and including its European Union contexts and relationships. It covers an expansive period from the earliest initiatives and originations of regional planning to the present, with correspondingly increasing detail."Sam C. M. Ofori, Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, University of Cape Coast