E. Purkarthofer
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Agency and Structure in Urban and Regional Planning
An Illustrative Overview and Future Research Agenda
There is extensive literature on the agency of actors in urban and regional planning which draws on a wide range of theoretical lenses and concepts. One of the recurring themes is the relationship between agency and structure—the mutual interdependence between individual actio ...
Regional planning
An arena of interests, institutions and relations
This special issue approaches regional planning as a contested arena of strategic planning. With this view, we transcend the idea that regional planning is purely a matter of scale and approach the complexity of regional planning from three perspectives: interests, institution ...
Soft planning in macro-regions and megaregions
Creating toothless spatial imaginaries or new forces for change?
Both planning practice and research increasingly acknowledge the existence of new scales and governance arrangements alongside and between statutory planning systems. Examples of new scales of non-statutory planning are large-scale megaregions and macro-regions. Drawing on exa ...