"Compares plans and planning framework of 5 U.S. states (Oregon, California, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey) and 5 European nation-states (The Netherlands, Denmark, France, U.K., and Ireland) that took innovative approaches to land use and spatial planning, particularly at the supralocal...

Klappentext: Regional planning has come of age. In country after country it has become part of the established machinery of government, a necessary function of increased centralization. Yet precisely at the very moment when the need for regional planning is accepted almost universally,...