Inch, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-687X, Wargent, M. and Tait, M. orcid.org/0000-0003-2107-6349 (2022) Serving the public interest? Towards a history of private sector planning expertise in England. Planning Perspectives, 38 (2). pp. 231-251. ISSN 0266-5433
Abstract
Until recently there has been little critical consideration of the privatization of urban planning expertise. In this paper we draw on archival research in England to present an historical analysis of the role of private sector planners over the post-war period. In so doing, the paper provides one of the first considerations of changing historical perceptions of the roles of private sector professionals in the delivery of public planning, assessing the claims through which markets in urban planning expertise have been both problematized and justified over time. Tracing the reorganization of planning expertise allows us to view public and private sector roles not as fixed and immutable categories but instead as historically contingent outcomes of struggles over how the contested public interest purposes of planning have been defined and realized.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Urban planning; privatization; private sector; public interest; professions; expertise; neoliberalism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/P011713/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 May 2022 10:20 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jun 2024 11:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02665433.2022.2063165 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:186346 |