Innovation in Public Planning

Ulla Higdem is Associate Professor at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. Her research interests include new and changing forms of directing, steering (governance) and planning, innovative networks and policy innovation and processes for regional and local planning and development, and partnership in a democratic perspective. Aksel Hagen is Associate Professor at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. He has been a planner at the local and regional level for seven years and served for more than 20 years as an elected representative in Norway.

1. Innovation on the planning theory agenda - an introduction.- 2. Calculate, communicate and innovate.- 3. Planning and innovation in a collaborative framework.- 4. Politicians' roles in planning - seen or ignored? What do we know about politicians' roles in planning?.- 5. Strategic turn in planning and the role of institutional innovation.- 6. Sustainable development - a question of 'modernization' or degrowth'?.- 7. To reduce social inequality through urban planning: the potential for innovation.- 8. Climate leadership: developing innovative strategic tools to improve the partnership-mode of planning.- 9. Innovative planning in rural, depopulating areas: conditions, capacities & goals.- 10. Lost or found? Translating innovative participation.- 11. Planning for innovation as innovative planning?.- 12. Innovation in planning theory, the upcoming perspectives.