ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a some additional ideas showing the applicability of Sen’s theorem to planning. The discussion is extended to the problem of simultaneously achieving procedural equality, substantive equality, and liberty. Hence, ‘regional political spheres’ are defined, spatially as well as jurisdic-tionally, in which each subnational unit in the federation has the right to decide without intervention from other regional units or the federal government. The idea of the works dealt with here is that the exercise of individual rights over private spheres should be limited by claims of justice or fairness in order to find a way out of the liberal paradox. Equal treatment is taken to mean that all individuals have influence over the same number of pairwise options falling outside any person’s protected sphere. Hence, a strong commitment to procedural equality and against decision cycles threatens to make planners intrude on personal spheres.
