ABSTRACT

This is an insightful study of spatial planning and housing strategy in London, focusing on the period 2000-2008 and the Mayoralty of Ken Livingstone. Duncan Bowie presents a detailed analysis of the development of Livingstone’s policies and their consequences.

Examining the theory and practice of spatial planning at a metropolitan level, Bowie examines the relationships between:

  • planning, the residential development market and affordable housing
  • environmental, economic and equity objectives
  • national, regional and local planning agencies and their policies.

It places Livingstone’s Mayoralty within its historical context and looks forward to the different challenges faced by Livingstone’s successors in a radically changed political and economic climate.

Clear and engaging, this critical analysis provides a valuable resource for academics and their students as well as planning, housing and development professionals. It is essential reading for anyone interested in politics and social change in a leading ‘world city’ and provides a base for parallel studies of other major metropolitan regions.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|10 pages

London and the planning of a world city

chapter 4|34 pages

The development of the London Plan

chapter 5|20 pages

From policy to implementation

chapter 7|27 pages

Revising the spatial plan

chapter 8|32 pages

Challenges to the London planning regime

chapter 10|17 pages

Planning and the market

chapter 11|4 pages

The management of land and space

chapter 14|30 pages

London’s experience of spatial planning