Planning, Policy and the Public Interest: Planning Regimes and Planners' Ethics and Practices

摘要

A substantive Public Interest criterion promotes planning area residents' welfare, absent countervailing public policy considerations. This criterion is applied to appraise planning practices in two planning regimes in the West Bank of Palestine: the British Mandate and the Israeli occupation. Detailed analysis of these planning systems' institutions, land policies, statutory plans and development control shows that planners in both regimes acted in the Public Interest as they saw it. But under the British Mandate there was no conflict between the two considerations, while the Israeli occupation policy promoting Israeli interests overrides the welfare of the Palestinian population. This conclusion invites reflection on the interaction between planning regimes and the ethics of planners' practices.rnThis volume provides a good introduction to the key concepts within development studies. Divided into four sections, Peet and Hartwick's work gives an overview of the different theoretical debates relevant to the field and presents the reader with a useful, concise guide. As well as this, the book adopts a practical approach from the offset, underlining the importance for the student of development studies to remember that these debates need to be situated in ongoing 'real-world' debates for their relevancy to development studies to be maintained. That said, although the practical and struc-