Böcker av Nick Gallent

Reconceiving the current housing crisis in England as a 'wicked' problem, this book situates the crisis in a broader range of socio-economic issues and calls for a change in how housing is produced and consumed.

This book examines the flow of investment into rural land assets in Europe, particularly farmland, woodland and wineries, but extending also to leisure uses such as golf courses and theme parks.

Taking an integrated approach, this book provides an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland.

Neighbourhood planning offers a critical analysis of community-based planning activity in England, framed within a broader view of collaborative rationality and its limits. From the recent experience of drawing up parish plans, and attempts to connect these to formal policy frameworks, it identifies lessons for future planning at the neighbourhood scale. It is not a manual on community planning practice, nor does it provide a formula for producing parish or neighbourhood plans. But in the context of the latest 'localism' agenda in England it, first, examines the potential contribution of neighbourhood planning to building a 'collaborative democracy' and, second, asks how much movement towards genuine local partnership, and consensus around development decisions, can be achieved through the rescaling of 'statutory' planning as opposed to expending greater effort locally on building stronger relationships, and generating trust, between 'people and planning'

More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises urban fringe. This book examines the challenges that planning faces in this no-man's land. It presents problems and solutions, and builds a vision for the urban fringe that is concerned with maximising its potential and with bridging the physical and cultural rift between town and country.

Analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative action in Marseille.

Are you concerned about the state of housing provision? Worried about further decline in the years ahead? This book addresses fundamental questions about the housing crisis, through examining its history and evolution. It provides students, planners and researchers with an account of the evolving relationship between planning and housing.

This book examines the processes and relationships that underpin the delivery of new homes across the United Kingdom.