Strategic Spatial Projects: Catalysts for Change

Strategic Spatial Projects presents four years of case study research and theoretical discussions on strategic spatial projects in Europe and North America. It takes the position that planning is not well equipped to take on its current challenges if it is considered as only a regulatory and administrative activity. There is an urgent need to develop a mode of planning that aims to innovate in spatial as well as social terms.

This timely, important book is for spatial planning, urban design and community development and policy studies courses. For academics, researchers and students in planning, urban design, urban studies, human and economic geography, public administration and policy studies.

Stijn Oosterlynck is Lecturer in Urban Sociology at the University of Antwerp and Post-doctoral Research Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders in the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Spatial Planning and the Institute of Social and Economic Geography at K.U.Leuven, Belgium.

Jef Van den Broeck is Honorary Professor in the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Spatial Planning at K.U.Leuven, Belgium.

Louis Albrechts is Emeritus Professor of Planning in the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Spatial Planning at K.U.Leuven, Belgium.

Frank Moulaert is Professor of Spatial Planning in the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Spatial Planning at K.U.Leuven, Belgium.

Ann Verhetsel is Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Economics in the Faculty of Applied Economics of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.