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Post-war planning and policy tourism: the international study tours of the Town and Country Planning Association 1947-1961

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  • Ian R. Cook
  • Stephen V Ward
  • Kevin Ward

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In light of the burgeoning academic interest in policy mobilities and policy tourism, this paper offers a critical insight into international planning study tours. Countering the contemporary focus of much of the research on these topics, this paper draws on archival research to explore the international study tours of the UK's Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) between 1947 and 1961. In doing this, the paper makes two wider arguments; first, that there remains significant mileage in bringing together the policy mobilities literature with the work on past exchanges and visits by architects, engineers and planners and, second, that greater awareness and appreciation of past examples of comparison and learning might allow contemporary studies to be situated in their longer historical trajectories.

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  • Ian R. Cook & Stephen V Ward & Kevin Ward, 2015. "Post-war planning and policy tourism: the international study tours of the Town and Country Planning Association 1947-1961," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(2), pages 184-205, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rptpxx:v:16:y:2015:i:2:p:184-205
    DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2015.1027948
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    1. Eugene McCann, 2017. "Governing urbanism: Urban governance studies 1.0, 2.0 and beyond," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(2), pages 312-326, February.
    2. Ida Andersson & Laura James, 2018. "Altruism or entrepreneurialism? The co-evolution of green place branding and policy tourism in Växjö, Sweden," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(15), pages 3437-3453, November.
    3. Yu Zhou, 2021. "Qujing (å –ç» ) as policy mobility with Chinese characteristics: A case study of ultralow-energy building policy in China," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(2), pages 410-427, March.
    4. Ian R. Cook, 2015. "Policy Mobilities and Interdisciplinary Engagement," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(4), pages 835-837, July.
    5. Vincent Béal & Renaud Epstein & Gilles Pinson, 2018. "Networked cities and steering states: Urban policy circulations and the reshaping of State–cities relationships in France," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 36(5), pages 796-815, August.

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