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ABSTRACT
Since the mid-1970s, regional planning has come under attack and has declined in practice. Much criticism of regional planning is valid, but issues which might properly be its focus are being neglected. Regional planning should not be rejected; its aims and methods should be restructured. In the past, regional planning focused on producing spatial balance, in future it should focus on the problems emerging from processes of uneven development and spatial restructuring.