All rights reservedWitzell, JacobOlsson, Amy Rader2024-08-232024-08-232016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1888Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southThe R&D-project “The Attractive Region”, initiated by the Swedish Transport Administration, aims at developing processes and methods that strengthen multi-level cooperation regarding the nexus of transport investments and local development in a regional context, outside Sweden’s main metropolitan regions. Using this project as a case, this study analyses the evolution of multi-level strategic planning capacity at the local and regional levels under contemporary fragmented and heterogenic planning conditions. An elaborated theoretical framework based on four key dimensions of urban-regional strategy formation processes, formulated by Patsy Healey, is applied in order to analyze strategic planning capacity among Swedish regions, and its effect on process and outcome in multi-level planning coordination initiatives. The results may contribute to the on-going efforts to strengthen regional spatial planning in Sweden and abroad.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject1658-1660