The Power of Planning Spaces of Control and Transformation

The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents, struggles and consequences of

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The GeoJournal Library Volume 67 Managing Editor:

Max Barlow, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Founding Series Editor: Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany

Editorial Board:

Paul Claval, France R.G. Crane, U.S.A. Yehuda Gradus, Israel Risto Laulajainen, Sweden Gerd Luttig, Germany Walther Manshard, Germany Osamu Nishikawa, Japan Peter Tyson, South Africa Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

The Power of Planning Spaces of Control and Transformation

edited by

OREN YIFTACHEL Department of Geography, and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurian University of the Negev. Beer Sheva, Israel

JO UTILE Department of Geography, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

DAVID HEDGCOCK Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia

and

IAN ALEXANDER Department of Geography, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia

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KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT I BOSTON I LONDON

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CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgements

VIl

Notes on Editors and Contributors

ix

Introduction: Outlining the Power of Planning Oren yiftachel PART 1: PLANNING AND COMMUNITIES

Community Planning in Australia Ian Alexander and David Hedgcock

21

Spaces of Resistance in Jerusalem Shlomo Hasson

33

One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Urban Policy and Community Planning in England Since 1979 Phil McManus

45

PART 2: PLANNING AND GENDER

Relationships Between Planning Policies and Women in Australian Suburbia Jean Hillier

57

Planning, Culture, Knowledge and Control: Minority Women in Israel Tovi Fenster

77

Women and the Rural Policy Process in England Jo Little

91

PART 3: PLANNING AND SOCIAL POLARISATION

The Suburbs Strike Back: Culture, Place and Planning in an Australian City Margo Huxley

103

The Consequences of Planning Control: Mizrahi Jews in Israel's 'Development Towns' Oren yiftachel

117

Urban Policies and the Urban Poor in the UK Keith Bassett

135 v

vi

PART 4: PLANNING AND MINORITIES

Land and Resuurce f~anning and Indigenous Interests: Reproducing or