In Search of the “Strategic” in Spatial Strategy MakingFootnote1

 1. This paper is a development of a version produced for the Liber Amicorum prepared to celebrate the retirement of Professor Louis Albrechts at the Universiteit Leuven (Van den Broeck & Moulaert, Citation2008). I would like to thank the Editor, Heather Campbell and four anonymous referees for helpful and insightful comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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