Time, Temporality, and Planning – Comments on the State of Art in Strategic Spatial Planning Research.

Strategic planning researchers need to explore the complexity of time and temporality beyond the straightforward clock-time view of temporal variation (linear, objective time). Both time and temporality are important to understand and theorize with regards to the practice of strategic spatial planning (Sandberg & Tsoukas, [32], p. 341). This short characterization of strategic spatial planning research leads us to three suggestions: Firstly, and not surprisingly, strategic planning researchers do I not i ignore time and temporality. Since past and present inevitably form the basis for the future distribution of activities in space, the time dimension is as essential for spatial planning as it is for any other type of planning. [Extracted from the article]