ABSTRACT
When we wrote the first edition of this book in the late 1980s, we were concerned to emphasize the fragmentation of planning, the way in which an apparently unified system of planning was being broken up under the impact of Thatcherism into a number of different, localized forms. These we termed ‘styles’ of planning to indicate their programmatic nature as much as their differentiated impact on the ground. We investigated these styles in practice through the medium of case studies. The case studies provided a snapshot of British planning at a particular time but they did more than just this: by capturing a point when the fragmentation was occurring they provided exemplars of the different styles as they were being ‘remade’. Now, some 8 years later, these case studies provide a standard against which to measure the continuing remaking of planning and to discuss possible future directions of change.
