It is tempting, and in this age of intensified international information exchange only increasingly so, to look across the national state borders for promising planning institutions that have been developed elsewhere. This occurs usually with the hope and expectation that similar positive...

Much of the recent academic literature on spatial planning in Europe focuses on either cross-national comparison of planning frameworks and planning practices or on transnational and transregional initiatives and their impact on planning in European countries. From those publications, it can be...