Building sustainable communities - 9781861347435

Building sustainable communitiesSpatial policy and labour mobility in post-war Britain\nAuthor(s): Mike Raco\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781861347435, 978-1861347435\nSynopsis\nIn 2003 the Labour Government published its ambitious Sustainable Communities [url] promised to bring about a 'step change' in the English planning system and a new emphasis on the construction of more balanced, cohesive, and competitive places.\n\nThis book uses historical and contemporary materials to document the ways in which policy-makers, in different eras, have sought to use state powers and regulations to create better, more balanced, and sustainable communities and [url] charts the changes that have take place in community-building policy frameworks, place imaginations, and core spatial policy initiatives in the UK since [url] so doing, it examines the tensions that have emerged within spatial policy over the types of places.