Today, most countries in the global north have developed and implemented urban growth
management (UGM) programs and policies aimed at mitigating the impacts and negative …

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 …

Faced with challenges such as rapid transformation of existing settlements, reorganisation of
mobility patterns, and climate change mitigation management, the governance of spatial …

This article furthers the unconsolidated theoretical discourse on planning cultures, focusing
on the region as a highly dynamic planning scale. The article discusses regional planning …

Using a case study design, the study focuses on identifying the institutional configuration
that determines land take by low-density residential areas. Methodologically, it combines …

The global comparison of planning systems faces several theoretical and normative
challenges. Against the background of ongoing debates on the comparability of emerging …

To achieve the German government's 30-hectare land take per day target, infilling is
considered a key planning guideline. However, there are hardly any valid empirical results …

How can formal planning deal with uncertainty and rapid change while maintaining high
standards of procedural certainty? This paper, using Germany as an example, examines …

The post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been largely
sidelined during the mainstream international debate on city-regional (or metropolitan) …

The paper makes a contribution to European comparative research on spatial planning by
providing an instrument-oriented methodological framework for forms of planning. Based on …