This article discusses the concepts of soft spaces and soft planning in the context of city-
regional planning, complementing the discussion with an excursion to “soft law”. The point of …

Carbon-neutral targets are a 'new normative'for cities and regions around the world. Such
targets call for rapid system transformations, beyond the normal remit of urban-regional …

This article furthers the unconsolidated theoretical discourse on planning cultures, focusing
on the region as a highly dynamic planning scale. The article discusses regional planning …

During the last two decades, accessibility has begun to take a more central role in transport
planning and decision making, as its importance has been recognized in many different …

Segregation is a relatively recent issue in larger Finnish cities. The existence of segregation
contradicts the Nordic welfare model, and segregation has been raised to the national policy …

In this article, we develop a normative-methodological spheres of inclusion-model that helps
to critically examine how different individuals and communities become part of society and …

The paper studies city-regional spatial planning from an institutional perspective. It applies
theories of discursive institutionalism and gradual institutional change to analyse the …

This article analyses the academic concept of “soft spaces” from the perspective of traveling
planning ideas. The concept has its origin in the United Kingdom but has also been used in …

City regions are significant sites of economic development, policymaking, and everyday
living. Yet in many countries they are weakly institutionalized and therefore lack established …

Both regional and rural development have enduring “received wisdoms” to which wise
practitioners and policy makers pay lip-service. In the case of the latter the role of land …