ABSTRACT
In the 1990s and noughties, strategic spatial planning was theorised by researchers who analysed a number of initiatives at work in some European regions (see inter alia Healey, 1997, 2007; Salet and Faludi, 2000; Albrechts, Healey and Kunzmann, 2003). This type of planning stands distinctly apart from the practices of past decades. There is now a wide consensus on the fact that the collaborative approach is the predominant paradigm in planning theory (Douay, 2010). To draw up and then implement planning requires setting up numerous exchange systems to promote interactions between actors, in order to create standards and visions of shared actions. The construction of strategies and networks of actors are thus closely entwined through legal standards.
