Interviews with members of the Norwegian national assembly's Standing Committee for Transport and Communications were conducted in 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2004. The politicians were asked about the usefulness of analytic input that planners contribute to national plans, first the Norwegian Road and...

1. The beauty of speed or the discovery of slowness : why do we need to rethink mobility? / Sigurd Bergmann -- 2. Mobility, freedom and public space / Mimi Sheller -- 3. Automobility and the driving force of warfare : from public safety to national security / Jeremy Packer -- 4. Stranded...

Planners are inclined to be in favour of public involvement and open processes and opposed to manipulation and lenient control of developers. The hypothesis here is that the attitudes of the typical Nordic planner, in particular, are much closer to communicative planning theory than to New...