ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a concept of culture in the theory and system of the book that is intellectually coherent and yet capable of being applied in concrete planning terms. The opportunities to transform planning through culture are closely related to issues of scale, and their interconnectedness. While it is fairly clear on a common sense level that planning and geographical scales are interconnected, and indeed nested, the same recognition is not so readily accorded to culture and its dimensions. Planning is an omnibus phenomenon. It covers a spatial continuum ranging from the area of a small site, through to a precinct, neighbourhood, suburb, town, region, nation state or confederation. Planning within urban and regional systems includes strategic planning. It explains to a consideration of the case of non-spatial strategic planning, important in developing and managing sectoral issues with a strong spatial nexus, such as tourism, heritage, and urban marketing.
