Governance and `Integrated' Planning: The Case of Sustainable Communities in the Thames Gateway, England

Sue Brownill and Juliet Carpenter
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Sue Brownill: Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes University, Gypsy Lane, Oxford, OX3 OBP, UK., sbrownill@brookes.ac.uk
Juliet Carpenter: Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes University, Gypsy Lane, Oxford, OX3 OBP, UK., jcarpenter@brookes.ac.uk

Urban Studies, 2009, vol. 46, issue 2, 251-274

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between the increasing emphasis on the integration of social, economic, democratic and environmental objectives within planning practice and the emergence of new forms of networked governance. Using a framework which stresses the hybridity and tensions that characterise current governance arrangements, the article investigates attempts to create `sustainable communities' in the Thames Gateway, England. The analysis reveals the tensions and contradictions arising from governing the Gateway, including those between the conflicting goals of economic competitiveness and social and environmental sustainability, between horizontal, networked governance and forms of and requirements for hierarchical direction and between a focus on delivery and participatory governance. The paper concludes by reflecting on the implications of the hybridity and complexity in governance forms for the search for sustainable communities and the forms of governance `fit for purpose' in their realisation.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098008099354

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