ABSTRACT
The so-called economic ‘crisis’ which has unfolded as a global event since 2008 has generated, for many people, a rupture in the nature of socio-economic life. Changes in the organizational structure of capitalism – of attempts by state and supra-state architectures to regulate capital and of networks of governance attempts to manage impacts as diverse as increases in poverty and welfare need or decaying commercial areas on declining rate incomes – epitomize instability and uncertainty. If we also include the environmental crises of floods, droughts and global warming, the raison d’être of spatial planning faces substantial conceptual challenges.
