National-level planning in democratic countries : an international comparison of city and regional policy-making

摘要: National-level spatial planning in democratic countries has been all but ignored by researchers urban and regional since the reconstruction years following World War II. Being synonymous for many with repressive regimes coercive government practices, national-level also fell into some disrepute. A set of specially commissioned papers from leading produced this challenging comprehensive study current ten developed world. Challenging common assumptions, comparative international finds that there seems to be a modest trend whereby, on threshold 21st century, grown importance democratic, advanced-economy countries.