The Power of Planning

by Yiftachel, Oren; Little, Jo; Hedgcock, David; Alexander, Ian

• ISBN13: 9781402005336
• ISBN10: 1402005334
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents, struggles and consequences of urban and regional planning. It shows that plans and policies often defy the commonly perceived role of advancing equality, justice, development and amenity, by causing social problems, marginalisation and inequalities. The book looks at planning from a critical distance, without a priori belief in its necessity or usefulness. The 12 chapters, written by renowned international scholars, demonstrate the multiplicity of social and political struggles over the contested terrain of spatial policies. The book focuses on four key areas where the impact of planning is explored: the community power, gender relations, ethnic tensions, and social polarisation, while comparing three societies: Australia, Israel and England. Audience: This volume is mainly intended for faculty and students of academia, but also for urban professionals and policy-makers. The book is relevant to fields such as urban and regional planning, geography, political science, urban studies, urban sociology, urban anthropology, ethnic and gender relations.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	vii
Notes on Editors and Contributors	ix
Introduction: Outlining the Power of Planning	1	(20)
Oren Yiftachel
PART 1: PLANNING AND COMMUNITIES
Community Planning in Australia	21	(12)
Ian Alexander
David Hedgcock
Spaces of Resistance in Jerusalem	33	(12)
Shlomo Hasson
One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Urban Policy and Community Planning in England Since 1979	45	(12)
Phil McManus
PART 2: PLANNING AND GENDER
Relationships Between Planning Policies and Women in Australian Suburbia	57	(20)
Jean Hillier
Planning, Culture, Knowledge and Control: Minority Women in Israel	77	(14)
Tovi Fenster
Women and the Rural Policy Process in England	91	(12)
Jo Little
PART 3: PLANNING AND SOCIAL POLARISATION
The Suburbs Strike Back: Culture, Place and Planning in an Australian City	103	(14)
Margo Huxley
The Consequences of Planning Control: Mizrahi Jews in Israel's `Development Towns'	117	(18)
Oren Yiftachel
Urban Policies and the Urban Poor in the UK	135	(20)
Keith Bassett
PART 4: PLANNING AND MINORITIES
Land and Resource Planning and Indigenous Interests: Reproducing or transforming the social relations of resource use	155	(16)
Marcus Lane
Stuart Cowell
The Dynamics of Ethnic Segregation in Israel	171	(18)
Hubert Law-Yone
Rachel Kallus
Urban Policy Deracialized?	189	(16)
Sue Brownill
Huw Thomas
Index	205