ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the challenge confronting planners in providing physical infrastructure for urban development, especially at the strategic scale. The chapter begins by tracing the involvement of the planning system in the development of urban infrastructure, and the shifting contexts within which planning objectives are achieved. Central to understanding the planning of strategic infrastructure is its contemporary transformation from public good to private asset class. In this context, the chapter illustrates the complexity and contradictions of large-scale infrastructure developments at the UK scale and in Scotland, London and northern England.
