ABSTRACT
The spaces and scales of planning, typically reflected in plans and strategies, have evolved, ebbed and flowed over time reflecting the priorities and philosophies of different governments and cultures of planning. This chapter explores how spaces and scales have begun to take on a new role and character, helping to deliver and facilitate growth-led planning in a variety of ways. Such ways include masking, fuzzying or displacing the political realities of such growth by breaking the link between what describes as more traditional territorial space and the more amorphous and fragmented new spaces of neoliberal planning. Territorial space and planning tend to be associated with and characterized by more traditional 'predict and provide' reactionary land use rationalities of planning. The complex and dynamic hard and soft spaces of planning reflect and help to facilitate neoliberal spatial governance.
