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The geography of military industry in Britain (1988)
Journal Article
Lovering, J., & Boddy, M. (1988). The geography of military industry in Britain. Area, 20(1), 41-51

In this paper new data on military industrial activity at regional levels in Britain are presented. It is argued that such activity is an important element of wider spatial changes in the 1980s. -Authors

Defence spending and the north-south divide (1988)
Journal Article
Boddy, M. (1988). Defence spending and the north-south divide. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, 57(1), 16-17

Government spending on defence equipment in the UK is currently 6% of public expenditure. It is a major generator of employment and is concentrated in the high-tech electronics and aerospace sectors. Over half of this expenditure is in the southeast.... Read More about Defence spending and the north-south divide.

High technology industry, regional development and defence manufacturing: a case study in the UK Sunbelt. (1987)
Book Chapter
Boddy, M. (1987). High technology industry, regional development and defence manufacturing: a case study in the UK Sunbelt. In B. Robson (Ed.), Managing the City The Aims and Impacts of Urban Policy, (60-83). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315178264

Looks at the supposed success story of Bristol, which is popularly seen as having made a successful accommodation the social and economic changes of the past decade, and of the M4 Corridor of which Bristol is the W extreme. Public investment has play... Read More about High technology industry, regional development and defence manufacturing: a case study in the UK Sunbelt..

Central-local government relations: theory and practice (1983)
Journal Article
Boddy, M. (1983). Central-local government relations: theory and practice. Political Geography, 2(2), 119-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/0260-9827%2883%2990016-2

Conflict between central and local government in Britain has reached new heights in the 1980s. Early attempts in the late 1970s to theorize the nature of local politics and the state have been overtaken by the radical restructuring of the geography o... Read More about Central-local government relations: theory and practice.

Changing public-private sector relationships in the industrial development process (1983)
Book Chapter
Boddy, M. (1983). Changing public-private sector relationships in the industrial development process. . Macmillan

The outcome of highly complex interdependencies which follow from closer forms of public-private partnerships in the industrial development process is expressed in industrial floorspace and shares of the financial returns. The more profound, longer-t... Read More about Changing public-private sector relationships in the industrial development process.

The property sector in late capitalism: The case of Britain (1981)
Book Chapter
Boddy, M. (1981). The property sector in late capitalism: The case of Britain. In M. Dear, & A. J. Scott (Eds.), Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society (267-286). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351068000

© 1981 Methuen & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. Since the last war a major feature of the restructuring of space by capital, in Britain as elsewhere, has been the massive scale of commercial and industrial property development. Office development, s... Read More about The property sector in late capitalism: The case of Britain.

The origins and use of theory in urban geography: Household mobility and filtering theory (1979)
Journal Article
Gray, F., & Boddy, M. (1979). The origins and use of theory in urban geography: Household mobility and filtering theory. Geoforum, 10(1), 117-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7185%2879%2990017-4

The paper looks in detail at one particular interpenetration of academic theory and state policy making - filtering theory in urban geography. While household mobility and turnover are important processes in the housing system, they are extended in f... Read More about The origins and use of theory in urban geography: Household mobility and filtering theory.

Community land scheme (1979)
Journal Article
Barrett, S., & Boddy, M. (1979). Community land scheme. Planner, 65(2), 44-45

The article addresses the problems to be resolved for land use planning in the United Kingdom with reference to research carried out at the School for Advanced Urban Studies for the Department of Environment to monitor the implementation of the Land... Read More about Community land scheme.

‘If independence goes, the planning system goes’: New political governance and the English planning inspectorate
Working Paper
Hickman, H., & Boddy, M. ‘If independence goes, the planning system goes’: New political governance and the English planning inspectorate

This paper reviews empirical evidence from interviews with forty professionals, of increased central control over the Planning Inspectorate, an executive agency of the UK Government. It highlights the acute tensions for inspectors and the planning sy... Read More about ‘If independence goes, the planning system goes’: New political governance and the English planning inspectorate.

Land-use planning and competitiveness
Presentation / Conference
Boddy, M. Land-use planning and competitiveness. Paper presented at Presentation to South West Regional Development Agency, Panel of Economists