ABSTRACT
This book is about new directions in the practice of spatial planning in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. Its focus is on how spatial strategies are made and translated into plans and projects for managing spatial change, development investment and environmental quality in urban regions. A strategic approach to land-use regulation and investment in urban and regional spatial development was dominant in many European countries in the 1960s. By the 1980s, the strategic impetus had lapsed in many places. Political and policy attention had tended to shift to the project: infrastructure investment projects, urban transformation projects, business parks and new settlements. By the late 1980s, however, and even more in the 1990s, a strategic approach to the organization of urban and regional space had become more prevalent. These new efforts in strategic spatial planning differ significantly from those deployed in the 1960s in their processes and policy agendas. This book focuses on this evolution.
