Planning Cultures in Europe: Decoding Cultural Phenomena in Urban and Regional Planning

摘要

When I started to prepare the review of Knieling and Othengrafen (2009), to better understand the specificities of European Spatial Research and Policy, I referred to a previous review I prepared for this journal, of Industrial Restructuring, by Lidia Greco. I was astonished to read the first sentence of that review, which I cite below and which is as good a starting point for this review as the sentences I had planned to write. 'Interest in culture as a variable in explaining particular places has increased in recent years in geography and the spatial sciences' (Benneworth, ESRaP 2004/11, p. 187).