@misc{e0044fedb1ab4969be5bc4a7c62affe1,
title = "Planning history and everyday urban change: an appreciation of J.W.R. Whitehand (1938–2021)",
keywords = "J.W.R. Whitehand, planning history, urban geography, urban morphology",
author = "Larkham, \{Peter J.\}",
note = "Funding Information: This work, funded by the Social Science Research Council and carried out in the early 1980s, focused first on town centres. It produced an approach to investigation that was deeply historical, shaped by the documentation of planning history, and sought accurate description and explanation of the urban forms of the present day. An intriguing research problem was the realization that up to 10\% of the planning application files in some local authorities were missing or, at best, mis-filed. This was before digital storage, but its predecessor, microfilming, had not been kind to some statutorily-required documentation. Even older adopted policy documents and associated papers were not always easy to locate. The focus then moved to suburbs, with the first of several Leverhulme Trust grants. Here, although delayed by a serious health problem in the early 1990s, he showed that the same approaches were relevant although the decision-making, like land ownership, was much more fragmented. He demonstrated a suburban {\textquoteleft}neighbour effect{\textquoteright}, where one person{\textquoteright}s changes to their house seemed to precipitate a chain of imitators. This body of work generated the expected raft of journal papers but, more accessibly, three books which succinctly drew the diverse threads together. The title of one of these, The Making of the Urban Landscape, deliberately urbanized Hoskins{\textquoteright}s Making of the English landscape – the historical connection could not be more plain. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor \& Francis Group.",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1080/02665433.2021.1972442",
language = "English",
series = "Planning Perspectives",
publisher = "Taylor \& Francis",
type = "Other",
}