The central concern of this book is place identity and its representation andmanipulation through planning. Place identity is of growing internationalconcern bo... » 

The central concern of this book is place identity and its representation andmanipulation through planning. Place identity is of growing internationalconcern both in planning practice and in academic work. The issue is importantto practitioners because of the impact of globalisation on notions of place.This book includes comparisons between Norway the Netherlands Sweden andScotland focusing strongly on the question of how different spatial planningsystems and practices are currently conceiving and affecting issues of placeidentity. «