Chapter|1It’s not enough to Vote

The vote for Brexit in the UK in 2016, the rise of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in 2017 in France and the election of Donald Trump in 2016 in the US are signs of significant dissatisfaction with and disconnection from the political order in old, established democracies. This distrust of political institutions has arisen in parallel with a dissatisfaction with and disconnection from place-planning processes. All too often the planning system excludes meaningful input from communities, and is out of step with what these communities actually need and want. It is time to change the way things are done and to bring communities ...

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