Planning Major Infrastructure

This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed? What can we learn from the different ways countries manage these challenges, to inform better spatial planning and more intelligent political steering?

Featuring case studies, new research, and a survey of the state of large scale planning, Planning Major Infrastructure answers these questions.

Part 1: Framing Infrastructure and Planning 1. Introducing Infrastructure and "Infrastructuralism" 2. Infrastructure Industries and Infrastructure Government 3. Possible New Infrastructure: Generating the Need and Imagining the Form 4. Planning Major Infrasturcture - Strategies and Projects Part 2: National Case Studies and the EU 5. The Netherlands 6. France 7. Spain 8. Germany 9. "Traditional" Planning for Major Infrastructure in the UK 10. New Approaches to Major Infrastructure Planning in the UK Part 3: Conclusions 11. Conclusions