Contents

pp iii-iii

List of figures, tables and boxes

pp iv-iv

Preface

pp v-vi

Part I - Contexts

pp 1-2

1 - Introduction: The changing organisational contexts for planning and why it matters

pp 3-26

2 - Public and private in postwar British planning

pp 27-44

3 - The public interest and planning’s contested purposes

pp 45-61

4 - Organisational settings and everyday practices

pp 62-76

Part II - Conditions

pp 77-78

5 - Privatisation and the contemporary landscape of planning provision in the UK

pp 79-103

6 - Commodification and casualisation: consultancies and agency staff in UK planning

pp 104-126

7 - Commercialisation and planning

pp 127-142

8 - Twenty-first-century planning work and workplaces

pp 143-156

Part III - Consequences

pp 157-158

9 - Professionalism and planning

pp 159-184

10 - Realising the public interest in planning?

pp 185-206

11 - Conclusions: Reorganising the future of public interest planning?

pp 207-227

Appendix on methodology

pp 228-234

Notes

pp 235-236

References

pp 237-262

Index

pp 263-270