<title>Abstract</title>Recent contributions to strategic spatial planning theory claim to develop a relational perspective on planning and space. In this paper, we explore this perspective further from its origins to the ways in which it conceptualizes various aspects of space. We focus on strategic-relational...

The UK Labour government's planning reform (2001-2010) intended to create a more proactive, creative and flexible planning culture. However, as the reforms progressed, public-sector planners increasingly lacked confidence. This article explores texts and contemporaneous interview material...

pt. I. Theoretical reflections bridging complexity and planning -- pt. II. Complex systems and planning, in between the real and the relative -- pt. III. Assemblage and a relational attitude to planning -- pt. IV. Simulating in between the real and the ideal.