ABSTRACT
The concept of a network society poses severe challenges for urban planning. Networks challenge planning to break the confines of its spatial borders. The practice of urban planning is spatially bounded because planners’ authority, if not responsibility, is restricted within borders sharply demarcated by governmental jurisdictions and units of political representation. Nonetheless, despite these political and administrative restrictions, the social and economic context for planning is heavily shaped by flows of activities that cross spatial boundaries and pass through locales.
