ABSTRACT
In the past two decades international literature has engaged widely with the concept of strategic planning. Healey describes strategic planning as ‘a social process through which a range of people in diverse institutional relations and positions come together to design plan-making processes and develop contents and strategies for the management of spatial change’ (Healey, 1997: 5). She also sees strategic planning as able to integrate and make sense of the multifaceted issues affecting specific localities drawing on various forms of knowledge and interventions (Healey, 2009). ‘Strategic work’ goes for Healey beyond mere institutionalised planning practices, involving the possibility to open up new avenues for action and contributing to the evolution of local governance in space (Healey, 2007).
