Conclusion

The strategic spatial planning experience led to the uncovering of the typical mechanisms involved in addressing conflicts that emerge as a result of spatial development. This book seeks to increase our understanding of two of these mechanisms: governance rescaling—the responsiveness of planning collaboration to the tensions and dilemmas that arise—and, under the header ‘designing and visioning’, the consideration of spatial imaginaries during planning procedures. The main aim of the book is to identify interrelations between governance rescaling, designing and visioning. Its proposition is that these mechanisms enhance each other: that design-led approaches influence the formation of governance and, vice versa, that governance rescaling is enhanced by visioning and the visualisation of (new) planning spaces.