ABSTRACT
Introduced in Part II above, Graham and Healey (October 1999) provided practicing planners with initial useful conceptual guidance on how to incorporate a new global knowledge-economy geography into their visioning and planning. Based in large part on relational theories of time and space, they argued for changes in planning practice. These changes were congruent with the new complexities and subtle dynamics of the global knowledge economy and network society. Four interrelated guiding points or principles were offered by Graham and Healey for the practice of relational planning. They advised planners seeking to practice relational planning to: (1) consider relations and processes rather than the traditional planner’s emphasis on objects and forms; (2) stress the multiple meanings of space and time; (3) represent places as multiple layers of relational assets and resources, which generate a distinctive power geometry of places; and (4) recognize how the relations within and between the layers of the power geometries of place are negotiated by the power of agency through communication, interpretation and new governance behaviors.
