Keywords

• In this article
• spatial planning is represented as an issue of strategically navigated becoming. Planning evolves
• functions and adapts
• attempts to embrace a future that is not determined by the continuity of the present
• nor by the path-dependent repetition of the past. It is concerned with the future transformation of place
• incorporating a combination of social
• environmental
• economic and political values about society. The author argues that planning practice is concerned with trajectories rather than specified end-points
• being a field of experimentation
• where processes are based on communication and involvement of actors rather than the top-down imposition of goals and policies. In regarding spatial planning as an experimental practice working with doubt and uncertainty
• engaged with adaptation and creation rather than scientistic proof-discovery
• the author suggests a definition of spatial planning as strategic navigation along the lines of the investigation of â€
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• virtualitiesâ€
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• unseen in the present
• the speculation about what may yet happen
• the inquiry into what at a given time and place we might think or do and how this might influence socially and environmentally just spatial form