In this policy briefing, Mark Dobson and Gavin Parker, authors of Slow Planning?, show how policy decisions such as England’s ‘Project Speed’ agenda, have deployed multiple policy and reform efforts to service economic growth through timescaping attempts.
Little attention has been paid by researchers to how time is deployed and managed in planning practice, yet it has become an increasingly important tool for governing the planning system in England and beyond. The regulation of time affects interests differently and the temporal governance of planning – what we term ‘timescaping’ – can have profound consequences for policy and communities.
Slow Planning? By Mark Dobson and Gavin Parker is available on the Bristol University Press website. Order here for £100.00 or £24.99 as an EPUB.
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