What are key rationalities that underpin planning policy discourses and how do they 'frame' seemingly irreconcilable conflicts around development and environmental protection? Providing an assessment of these important questions, this book analyzes whether planning for sustainable development can provide a basis upon which to re-establish planning.

Jonathan Murdoch, Cardiff University, UK. Simone Abram is Reader in Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Contents: Planning and the governance of growth: theories and issues; The changing rationalities of planning policy; The policy hierarchy in planning; Planning by numbers; Competing rationalities in structure planning; Down to the district: local expressions of development and environment; Towards a new rationality of planning?; Bibliography; Index.