Mario Reimer is a scientific researcher at Ruhr University Bochum (Urban and Metropolitan Studies) and at the Research Institute for Urban and Regional Development (ILS) in Dortmund.Panagiotis Getimis is Professor of Spatial Planning and Policies at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens. He obtained his PhD in Spatial Planning and Policies from the Technical University of Berlin (1980). He is a founding member and co-director of the journal TOPOS: Review of Urban and Regional Studies. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Research Association and has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Urban Research and Practice since 2007.Hans Heinrich Blotevogel is Professor Emeritus of Spatial Planning at Dortmund Technical University's Faculty of Spatial Planning. He obtained his PhD in Human Geography from the Ruhr University in Bochum (1972). He is member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Erdkunde, Archive for Scientific Geography and Raumforschung und Raumordnung.

• Chapter 1 Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe: A Comparative Perspective (by Mario Reimer, Panagiotis Getimis & Hans Heinrich Blotevogel) Chapter 2 The Danish Planning System 1990-2010: Continuity and decay (by Ole Damsgaard) Chapter 3 The Recent Development of the Finnish Planning System - The city of Vantaa as an executor, fighter and idependent actor (by Sari Hirvonen-Kantola & Raine Mäntysalo) Chapter 4 Dutch national spatial planning at the end of an era (Wil Zonneveld & David Evers) Chapter 5 Spatial Planning in Germany: Institutional Inertia and New Challanges (Hans Heinrich Blotevogel, Rainer Danielzyk & Angelika Münter) Chapter 6 France, drifting away from the 'regional economic' approach (by Anna Geppert) Chapter 7 The Modernization of the Italian Planning System (by Valeria Lingua & Loris Servillo) Chapter 8 The evolution of spatial planning in Greece after the 1990s: Drivers, directions and agents of change (by Panagiotis Getimis & Georgia Giannakourou) Chapter 9 Spatial Planning in Flanders: Serving a by-passed capitalism? (by Pieter Van den Broeck, Frank Moulaert, Annette Kuhk, Els Lievois & Jan Schreurs) Chapter 10 Spatial planning in the United Kingdom, 1990-2013 (by Vincent Nadin & Dominic Stead) Chapter 11 Changing Planning in the Czech Republic (by Karel Maier) Chapter 12 Spatial and Strategic Planning in Turkey: Institutional Change and New Challanges (by Gülden Erkut & Ervin Sezgin) Chapter 13 Spatial Planning in Poland between European Influence and Dominant Market Forces (by Giancarlo Cotella) Chapter 14 Conclusion: Multiple Trends of Continuity and Change (by Panagiotis Getimis, Mario Reimer & Hans Heinrich Blotevogel)

Mario Reimer is a scientific researcher at Ruhr University Bochum (Urban and Metropolitan Studies) and at the Research Institute for Urban and Regional Development (ILS) in Dortmund.Panagiotis Getimis is Professor of Spatial Planning and Policies at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens. He obtained his PhD in Spatial Planning and Policies from the Technical University of Berlin (1980). He is a founding member and co-director of the journal TOPOS: Review of Urban and Regional Studies. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Research Association and has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Urban Research and Practice since 2007.Hans Heinrich Blotevogel is Professor Emeritus of Spatial Planning at Dortmund Technical University's Faculty of Spatial Planning. He obtained his PhD in Human Geography from the Ruhr University in Bochum (1972). He is member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Erdkunde, Archive for Scientific Geography and Raumforschung und Raumordnung.

• Chapter 1 Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe: A Comparative Perspective (by Mario Reimer, Panagiotis Getimis & Hans Heinrich Blotevogel) Chapter 2 The Danish Planning System 1990-2010: Continuity and decay (by Ole Damsgaard) Chapter 3 The Recent Development of the Finnish Planning System - The city of Vantaa as an executor, fighter and idependent actor (by Sari Hirvonen-Kantola & Raine Mäntysalo) Chapter 4 Dutch national spatial planning at the end of an era (Wil Zonneveld & David Evers) Chapter 5 Spatial Planning in Germany: Institutional Inertia and New Challanges (Hans Heinrich Blotevogel, Rainer Danielzyk & Angelika Münter) Chapter 6 France, drifting away from the 'regional economic' approach (by Anna Geppert) Chapter 7 The Modernization of the Italian Planning System (by Valeria Lingua & Loris Servillo) Chapter 8 The evolution of spatial planning in Greece after the 1990s: Drivers, directions and agents of change (by Panagiotis Getimis & Georgia Giannakourou) Chapter 9 Spatial Planning in Flanders: Serving a by-passed capitalism? (by Pieter Van den Broeck, Frank Moulaert, Annette Kuhk, Els Lievois & Jan Schreurs) Chapter 10 Spatial planning in the United Kingdom, 1990-2013 (by Vincent Nadin & Dominic Stead) Chapter 11 Changing Planning in the Czech Republic (by Karel Maier) Chapter 12 Spatial and Strategic Planning in Turkey: Institutional Change and New Challanges (by Gülden Erkut & Ervin Sezgin) Chapter 13 Spatial Planning in Poland between European Influence and Dominant Market Forces (by Giancarlo Cotella) Chapter 14 Conclusion: Multiple Trends of Continuity and Change (by Panagiotis Getimis, Mario Reimer & Hans Heinrich Blotevogel)