ABSTRACT
Britain is witnessing a second burst of regional planning activity, almost twenty years after the wartime and post-war group of advisory regional plans. A regional strategy has to seek suitable general relations between three elements: the scale and spacing of communities, the location of facilities and workplaces, and the means of transportation. Regional strategies in Britain to date have been mainly concerned to organise dispersal from large urban areas through the creation of encircling green belts, the decongestion of inner areas, and the development of new and expanded towns. Whatever the defects of theory, economic and social pressures are increasingly inducing tentative formulations of regional strategy, at least in Britain. The former depends on the totality of economic functions located within the cluster, the latter upon the distribution of these functions and the pattern of services which is planned or emerges.
