ABSTRACT
The previous three chapters have explored in some depth the use of information, financial incentives and spatial planning as policy tools of governing for sustainable urban development and how they constitute a form of learning. In this penultimate chapter, the policy tool of regulation is discussed. Such regulation focuses on the control of new development through building codes and planning frameworks, but this also involves promulgating checklists for what constitutes a sustainable development and the use of environmental impact assessment. It might seem that regulation is firmly in the realm of governmental activity, with the power vested in the state. As will be seen, in practice there are significant aspects of network governance and of steering through governmentality modes.
