In recent years, city governments and other entities concerned with urban futures have been
exhorted to produce spatial strategies, indicating how their areas might develop in the future …

Although marine spatial planning (MSP) is increasingly being applied worldwide, it appears
to be based on an ambiguity that has arisen from its dichotomous role of ensuring both …

Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies develops important new relational and
institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relevance to all those with an …

This paper examines the way concepts of place and space are being used in the new wave
of strategic spatial plans in Europe, in relation to the intellectual debates in the social …

Barrie Maguire's image of a woman stitching together the Irish landscape reflects the central
question behind this Longer View: What will recent strategic spatial planning efforts in …

Social science and public policy debate in Europe have focused attention on the changing
governance of cities and urban regions. Any analyst of governance processes is inherently …

Strategic spatial planning practices have recently taken a neoliberal turn in many
northwestern European countries. This neoliberalisation of strategic spatial planning has …

Clear-cut definitions of strategic spatial planning are rather exceptional. Therefore in this
paper I use building blocks from literature (planning and business) and my experience in …

The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the debate on existing planning approaches—
more specifically, strategic spatial planning—and the search for new ideas. Therefore, after …

This paper introduces one of the largest single research projects ever granted in the field of
spatial planning. It presents the context the project has to work in and the challenges it has …