Policy Press

Planning without Growth

By Yvonne Rydin

Published

Feb 25, 2025

Page count

304 pages

ISBN

978-1447369776

Dimensions

244 x 170 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Feb 25, 2025

Page count

304 pages

ISBN

978-1447369783

Dimensions

244 x 170 mm

Imprint

Policy Press
Planning without Growth

Many planning systems are currently locked into growth-dependence, encouraging market-led development which can widen social inequalities and produce adverse environmental outcomes.

This accessible book introduces students to the debates around growth and planning and sets out the solutions to promote genuinely sustainable communities. It includes:

•a positive proposal for reform of the planning system;

•focussed discussions from the UK and Europe providing lessons for future planning;

•analysis of the challenges of implementing reform.

Covering chapters on cooperatives, community land trusts, local economic development and community assets and infrastructure, as well as commoning, it provides a roadmap for planning system reform with social justice and sustainability at its heart.

Yvonne Rydin is Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.

1. Planning and the Pro-growth Agenda

2. Alternative Perspectives on Planning and Growth

3. A Post-growth Framework for Exploring Planning Without Growth

4. Economic Development and Small Local Firms

5. Economic Democracy and Cooperatives

6. Housing Development and Community Land Trusts

7. Community Assets and Social Enterprise

8. Community-Based Infrastructure

9. Urban Commoning

10. Planning without Growth as Rebalancing a Diverse Economy