ABSTRACT
The case examples of the last three chapters have all related to governmental planning activities at a local or sub-regional level, in which a spatial element was prominent. However, the methodology which we have introduced has, we believe, a more general relevance to other levels of governmental activity, in so far as these may also involve problems of choosing a series of interventions over time in a complex and continually changing social environment, within which there are many conflicting systems of values to be reconciled.
