ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the important theoretical critiques of the concept of public planning in general and public land-use planning in particular. These have been developed in America, Britain and Eastern Europe (most accessibly in Yugoslavia). Among other things they have contributed to the intellectual bases of the regimes of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher; and help to explain the collapse of centralized planning in Eastern Europe. Land-use planning has been influenced both indirectly and directly by these critiques.
