London

Mike Raco, Frances Brill

• Publisher: Agenda Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781788213066
• eBook ISBN: 9781788213080
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Urban Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

As one of the fastest growing cities in Europe, London has become a mass generator of employment and a magnet for inward migration. Yet London is also a divided city, whose expansion has generated many planning challenges.

This book explores the tensions, complexities and difficulties in mobilizing policy agendas in London, but it also argues that public policy still matters and makes a significant difference to outcomes. The authors show how the market-led development of London has meant that the state supports more private-sector-led governance and this has given rise to widespread privatization of the city's decision-making processes and policy implementation. As a key command and control centre in the global economy, London's privatized model has become one for other megacities to emulate.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Planning in the shadow of the market: the emergence of a London model
• 2 Public regulation and planning for the global city
• 3 Private regulation, governance and the rise of the parastate
• 4 Political representation, community politics and the right to regulate
• 5 Governing the development, financing and funding of the London model
• 6 London’s housing crisis and emergence of new residential landscapes
• 7 Planning for tall buildings: global ambitions and local discontents
• 8 Major infrastructure projects: building, financing and delivering the Thames Tideway Tunnel and Crossrail
• 9 Planning without growth: what next for the London model?
• References
• Index