ABSTRACT
This book highlights creative approaches in planning and local development. The dynamic complexity, diversity and fluidity characterizing contemporary societies represent challenges for planning and development endeavours (Hillier, 2007; Healey, 2010). There is ample evidence that the socio-economic challenges induced by the globalization process, and the profound redefinition of urban hierarchies that places and regions are confronted with cannot be tackled and managed adequately either within the neo-liberal perspective (Harvey, 2006) or with the intellectual technical-legal apparatus and mindset of traditional land-use planning (Jessop, 2000; Albrechts, 2010).
