ABSTRACT
As the previous chapter has indicated, the much-heralded ‘second planning revolution’ came to little. By the end of the 1960s, the enormous promise of the postwar planning system still remained largely unfulfilled. Far from arousing popular support, an antiplanning blacklash was setting in, a product not simply of what planning had not done but, ominously, of what it had done wrong. By the 1970s, the tide that had carried planning along a broadly consensual path was turning. Determined to stay afloat, the TCPA sought not to jettison its heartland issues (like new towns and regional planning) but to bring aboard an additional cargo of participatory planning and community politics.
