CONTENTS List of illustrations vii List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 SlMIN DAVOUDI AND IAN STRANGE 1 Space and place in twentieth-century planning: an analytical framework and an historical review : 7 SlMIN DAVOUDI AND IAN STRANGE 2Making Wales: spatial strategy making in a devolved context 43 NEIL HARRIS AND HUW THOMAS 3Identity and territory: the creation of a national planning framework for Scotland 71 GREG LLOYD AND GRAEME PURVES 4Space and place in the national spatial strategy for the Republic of Ireland 95 JAMES A. WALSH 5 Building consensus in contested spaces and places? The Regional Development Strategy for Northern Ireland 125 MICHAEL MURRAY 6 Doing strategic planning differently? The Yorkshire and Humber regional spatial strategy 147 GORDON DABINETT 7Managing the metropolis: economic change, institutional reform and spatial planning in London 181 NICK BAILEY 8 Asymmetric development in spatial planning: positivist content and post-modernist processes? 207 SIMIN DAVOUDI Bibliography 245 Index 269