ABSTRACT
I can probably not go wrong saying that in these latter years attention has cumulatively been drawn to the study of legal systems of territorial planning in European countries. The comparative analysis of law regulations is worthwhile; however, it is no less challenging or relevant to approach the planning from a broader perspective, incorporating the milieu of a country’s social mentality, its traditions and a system of values wherein the legal systems come into existence and start to operate. I presume that the mental environment wherein a legal planning system has come into being, the territorial planning and its product – the development of regions and towns – can be understood as the country’s planning culture.
