Abstract
The planning system affects us all in one way or another — through location of homes and jobs, through roadbuilding, through redevelopment of city centres. slum areas and so on. So it is important to know whether there is any bias in the system against poorer people, and if so what it is and how it can be corrected. David Lock argues that the planning system is capable of delivering great benefits to all consumers but that certain methods and practices of planners, combined with the inability of poorer consumers to insist on their rights, have been major obstacles in getting poorer people a fair deal
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Lock, D. (1977). Town Planning. In: Williams, F. (eds) Why the Poor Pay More. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15779-2_8
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