This title was first published in 2001. Planning today has to deal with a completely different world from the one in which many of the basic ways of thought of the profession were founded.

1: In Search of New Approaches for Planning; 2: Complexity and Interdependency in a Kaleidoscopic Spatial Planning Landscape for Europe; 3: The European Spatial Development Perspective and the Changing Institutional Landscape of Planning; 4: Planning at a National Scale: A New Planning Framework for the UK; 5: From Traditional Land Use Planning to Strategic Spatial Planning: The Case of Flanders; 6: Regionalisation and Planning: Creating Institutions and Stakeholders in the English Regions; 7: The Ruhr in Germany: A Laboratory for Regional Governance; 8: New Tasks and New Forms for Comprehensive Planning in Italy; 9: Breaking the Ties with the Master Plan: Spatial Strategic Plans in Portugal; 10: Pitfalls in Communicative Planning: The Case of Landås Township Plan in Bergen, Norway; 11: Community Involvement in Spatial Planning: Economic Development in Merseyside; 12: Conclusions: Driving Forces for Institutional Change

Louis Albrechts, Jeremy Alden, Artur Da Rosa Pires