Louis Albrechts is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Spatial Planning at the University of Leuven, Belgium.Alessandro Balducci is Full Professor of Planning and Urban Policies at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.Jean Hillier is Emeritus Professor of Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University, Australia.

• CONTENTSList of figuresList of tablesIllustration creditsList of contributorsPreface AcknowledgementsGENERAL INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Some ontological and epistemological challengesLouis AlbrechtsPART 1 SITUATED EXPERIENCES OF STRATEGIC PLANNING WORLDWIDE Chapter 2. Introduction. Louis Albrechts and Alessandro Balducci Cross-national & National experiences Chapter 3. Regional strategic planning for China’s Pearl River DeltaJiang Xu and Anthony G.O. YehChapter 4. Space as an Integrating Frame: Manifestations of and Prospects for Strategic Spatial Thinking in East Africa's Quest for IntegrationLawrence Esho and Robert ObudhoChapter 5. The Region is Dead, Long Live the Region: the Øresund Region 15 years after the Bridge Jonathan Metzger and Kristian OlesenChapter 6. Urban Strategic Spatial Planning in China: a two-round development since the late 1990sKang Cao and Li ZhengChapter 7. THE ROLE OF strategic spatial planning IN territorial sustainability - The CASE OF FRANCEChristophe Demazière and José SerranoChapter 8. Strategic Spatial Planning in the USA John Bryson Carissa and Schively SlotterbackChapter 9. ‘What’s So Strategic about Australian Metropolitan Plans and Planning Reform? The Case of Melbourne, Perth and SydneyPaul J. Maginn, Robin Goodman, Nicole Gurran and Kristian RumingChapter 10. Strategic planning for transformation in post-Apartheid Johannesburg, South AfricaPhilip HarrisonChapter 11. The Blessings of ‘non-planning’ in EgyptMona Abdelwahab and Yehya SeragChapter 12.

Louis Albrechts is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Spatial Planning at the University of Leuven, Belgium.Alessandro Balducci is Full Professor of Planning and Urban Policies at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.Jean Hillier is Emeritus Professor of Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University, Australia.

• CONTENTSList of figuresList of tablesIllustration creditsList of contributorsPreface AcknowledgementsGENERAL INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Some ontological and epistemological challengesLouis AlbrechtsPART 1 SITUATED EXPERIENCES OF STRATEGIC PLANNING WORLDWIDE Chapter 2. Introduction. Louis Albrechts and Alessandro Balducci Cross-national & National experiences Chapter 3. Regional strategic planning for China’s Pearl River DeltaJiang Xu and Anthony G.O. YehChapter 4. Space as an Integrating Frame: Manifestations of and Prospects for Strategic Spatial Thinking in East Africa's Quest for IntegrationLawrence Esho and Robert ObudhoChapter 5. The Region is Dead, Long Live the Region: the Øresund Region 15 years after the Bridge Jonathan Metzger and Kristian OlesenChapter 6. Urban Strategic Spatial Planning in China: a two-round development since the late 1990sKang Cao and Li ZhengChapter 7. THE ROLE OF strategic spatial planning IN territorial sustainability - The CASE OF FRANCEChristophe Demazière and José SerranoChapter 8. Strategic Spatial Planning in the USA John Bryson Carissa and Schively SlotterbackChapter 9. ‘What’s So Strategic about Australian Metropolitan Plans and Planning Reform? The Case of Melbourne, Perth and SydneyPaul J. Maginn, Robin Goodman, Nicole Gurran and Kristian RumingChapter 10. Strategic planning for transformation in post-Apartheid Johannesburg, South AfricaPhilip HarrisonChapter 11. The Blessings of ‘non-planning’ in EgyptMona Abdelwahab and Yehya SeragChapter 12.

Louis Albrechts is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Spatial Planning at the University of Leuven, Belgium.Alessandro Balducci is Full Professor of Planning and Urban Policies at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.Jean Hillier is Emeritus Professor of Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University, Australia.

• CONTENTSList of figuresList of tablesIllustration creditsList of contributorsPreface AcknowledgementsGENERAL INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Some ontological and epistemological challengesLouis AlbrechtsPART 1 SITUATED EXPERIENCES OF STRATEGIC PLANNING WORLDWIDE Chapter 2. Introduction. Louis Albrechts and Alessandro Balducci Cross-national & National experiences Chapter 3. Regional strategic planning for China’s Pearl River DeltaJiang Xu and Anthony G.O. YehChapter 4. Space as an Integrating Frame: Manifestations of and Prospects for Strategic Spatial Thinking in East Africa's Quest for IntegrationLawrence Esho and Robert ObudhoChapter 5. The Region is Dead, Long Live the Region: the Øresund Region 15 years after the Bridge Jonathan Metzger and Kristian OlesenChapter 6. Urban Strategic Spatial Planning in China: a two-round development since the late 1990sKang Cao and Li ZhengChapter 7. THE ROLE OF strategic spatial planning IN territorial sustainability - The CASE OF FRANCEChristophe Demazière and José SerranoChapter 8. Strategic Spatial Planning in the USA John Bryson Carissa and Schively SlotterbackChapter 9. ‘What’s So Strategic about Australian Metropolitan Plans and Planning Reform? The Case of Melbourne, Perth and SydneyPaul J. Maginn, Robin Goodman, Nicole Gurran and Kristian RumingChapter 10. Strategic planning for transformation in post-Apartheid Johannesburg, South AfricaPhilip HarrisonChapter 11. The Blessings of ‘non-planning’ in EgyptMona Abdelwahab and Yehya SeragChapter 12.