ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to highlight the new conceptual work and rich insights emerging within the nexus of planning and border studies in key areas such as: community, territory and governance; environmental justice; food and energy security; metropolitan growth; urban consolidation; regional mobility; urban ecology; and the virtual world. It focuses on borders in concept and theory focuses on rethinking borders and the border-institution nexus. The book illustrates in detail the increasingly complex process of planning across infrastructure borders particularly in the key areas of telecommunications and transportation. It draws on attention to borders in a mobile world and the importance of better understanding the bounded dimensions of mobility in planning communities and places. The book explores the role of urban planning at the interface of border processes that shape and define land-use spaces.
