Andy Thornley (editor) - Planning in the UK : agendas for the new millennium

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David Adams European Urban and Regional Research Centre, Department of Land Economy, University of Aberdeen.

Nick Bailey Department of Development and Urban Regeneration, University of Westminster.

Nia Blank Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales.

Caroline Brown Centre for the Built Environment and Planning, University of the West of England, Bristol.

Heather Campbell Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield.

Stephen Connelly Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield.

Alan Disberry Previously Research Fellow, Department of Land Economy, University of Aberdeen.

Stefanie Dhr Centre for Environment and Planning, University of the West of England, Bristol.

Keith Fernie Geddes Centre for Planning Research, School of Town and Regional Planning, University of Dundee.

Frank Gaffikin Director, Urban Institute, The University of Ulster.

Catherine Hammond PhD Researcher, Department of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Victoria Hands Centre for Local Environmental Policies and Strategies, South Bank University.

Angela Hull Centre for Research in European Urban Environments, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle.

Norman Hutchison European Urban and Regional Research Centre, Department of Land Economy, University of Aberdeen.

Barbara M. Illsley Geddes Centre for Planning Research, School of Town and Regional Planning, University of Dundee.

Glyn Jones Environmental Project Manager, Urban Mines, Norwood Green.

Victoria Joy Environmental Consultant, Addleshaw, Booth & Co, Solicitors, Leeds.

Peter J. Larkham Birmingham School of Planning, University of Central England.

M. G. Lloyd Geddes Centre for Planning Research, School of Town and Regional Planning, University of Dundee.

Robert Marshall Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield.

J. McCarthy Geddes Centre for Planning Research, School of Town and Regional Planning, University of Dundee.

Malachy McEldowney Head of School of Environmental Planning, The Queens University of Belfast.

Nicola Morrison Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

Mike Morrissey Co-Director of the Urban Institute in Belfast. He has worked in the Northern Ireland Polytechnic and the University of Ulster since 1975.

Thomas Munjoma European Urban and Regional Research Centre, Department of Land Economy, University of Aberdeen.

Deborah Peel Department of Development and Urban Regeneration, University of Westminster.

John Pendlebury Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle.

Susan Percy Centre for Local Environmental Policies and Strategies, South Bank University.

Jenny Poxon East Midlands Rural Action Group Development Officer and East Midlands ACRE Network Secretary.

Elaine Quinn Researcher in Environmental Planning, Environmental Impact Assessment Centre, University of Manchester.

Peter Roberts Geddes Centre for Planning Research, School of Town and Regional Planning, University of Dundee.

Yvonne Rydin Reader in Environmental Planning, Director of MSc Environmental Assessment and Evaluation, London School of Economics.

Martyn Senior Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales.

Liz Sharp Lecturer in Environmental Management, Course Leader of MSc in Local Sustainable Development, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield.

Ken Sterrett Lecturer in Environmental Planning, The Queens University of Belfast.

Andy Thornley Senior Lecturer, Director of MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies, London School of Economics.

Tim Townshend Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle.

Chris Webster Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales.

Christine M. E. Whitehead Professor of Housing, London School of Economics.

YVONNE RYDIN AND ANDY THORNLEY

The year 2000 was seen in with world-wide fireworks; the year 2001 rather more quietly. Either way we are now into the third millennium. For most planners and planning work, life continues much as normal. But that could be deceptive. For any period of profound change, always carries with it continuities from the past. For UK planning there are changes (and continuities) to deal with from a number of different directions. There are the cultural, political and economic changes associated with globalisation, that we, along with many other researchers explore in the sister-volume Planning in a Global Era (Thomley and Rydin, 2001). For the UK there is the related aspect of learning to live with and within Europe. There is the current heightening of the environmental agenda, with a recurrent sense of crisis, political protest, repeated scientific warnings and attempts at international action. There are changes in social trends, with new patterns of household formation and ways of everyday life. Many of these, at home and work, are associated with the rise of information technology, that seems to be all around us these days: PCs, mobile phones, smart equipment of all kinds. And yet, in a veiy real sense, the problems remain unchanged: poor environmental quality, health and safety threats to everyday life, unemployment and economic recession, social deprivation, and spatial inequality.