Town and Country Planning, January 1st, 2001
`You wait 20 years for a comprehensive policy statement on our towns and cities and then two come along at once.' This response, heard at a recent conference, is hardly insightful, but does indicate just how far away we are from a `joined-up' strategy for providing the homes, jobs, and communities we need in urban and rural Britain.
The Urban White Paper has perhaps been best described as an excellent compendium of ideas to make cities better -- but is it a policy? To deride it too heavily would be churlish, since many of the proposals are excellent and derive from the more excellent Final ...
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