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    Changing Planning Discourses and Practices: Flanders Structure Plan
    (AESOP, 2017-07) Olesen, Kristian; Albrechts, Louis
    This booklet explores the contributions of Professor Emeritus Louis Albrechts (KU Leuven) to planning practice, with special reference to the case study of the ‘Flanders Structure and Plan’. Albrechts has, through his long academic career, maintained a strong interest in planning practice. His academic work has in many ways been focused on developing more appropriate and responsible ways of doing planning and at the core of Albrechts’ academic thinking has been the question of how to improve the practice of planning. His scholarly work has always been deeply rooted in his own experiences and reflections from working closely with and in planning practice. Albrechts has a long and impressive CV, and there are a significant number of projects that I could have explored deeper in this publication. In the end, I decided to focus on Albrechts’ perhaps most well-known contribution to planning practice, his work on the first Structure Plan for Flanders in the early 1990s. This choice reflects partly my own interest in strategic spatial planning, but it appeals hopefully also to a broader audience interested in how new planning ideas emerge, gain momentum, and then partly loose legitimacy, as socio-economic and political conditions change.
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    Louis Albrechts — Belgium
    (Taylor & Francis, 2015) Albrechts, Louis
    In this national reflection, Louis Albrechts examines the evolution of spatial planning in Flanders (Belgium) following the country’s federalisation and the transfer of planning responsibilities to regional authorities. He critiques the rigidity and outdated nature of statutory land-use plans and traces the development of the Structure Plan Flanders as a significant milestone in raising the visibility of planning. Albrechts reflects on shifting political dynamics, dominant themes such as ribbon development and urban decay, and highlights the growing disconnect between academic research and planning practice. He advocates for linking spatial planning to socio-spatial innovation, embedding governance and social change in planning processes. Finally, he argues for the need to educate planners with creative, integrative, and adaptive mindsets, and promotes a dialectical approach between top-down and bottom-up governance—especially in relation to the EU’s influence.