Keywords

• The notion of â€
• œ
• spatial planningâ€
• 
• is here interrogated
• both in the context the European Union and the us. To do so
• the author mulls over some ideas about â€
• ˜
• planningâ€
• ™
• prompted by the complexities of eu meta-territorial policies and national/local land use regulation
• on one side
• and in the local self-determination tradition of planning in the us
• on the other. If we see the various guises of urban/spatial planning as specific to particular cultures
• this then opens up questions about the relations of these specific histories to general theoretical conceptualisations of urban planning on the one hand
• or on the other
• raises practical questions about particular planning regimes in relation to aspirations for European spatial planning. Tracing some major differences of terminology and use related to the notion of spatial planning
• and examining their particular histories to uncover some of the taken-for-granted starting assumptions that inflect planning discourses
• the author argues thereâ€
• ™
• s a consistent space in debates in the (spatial/urban/city) planning literature
• especially in the perspective of discussing language and
• most important
• translation issues