The ideas put forward in Collaborative Planning, situated as I have
described in a particular North-west European experience, are now circulating
in the ‘global’ planning community. As these ideas ‘travel’, as with
all ‘travelling ideas’, they are filled with different meanings, which I did not
necessarily intend or expect. Hopefully, the critical assessment of their
situated meanings, robustness and relevance will continue, from the
perspectives of very different governance contexts and cultures. Such
critical encounter should lead to a much greater understanding of the
diversity of the manifestations of the ‘planning enterprise’ and of governance
cultures in different parts of the world. It should also contribute to our
knowledge about governance transformation processes, and what it takes
to shift governance discourses and practices in ways that have the potential
to enhance social justice as inclusively understood and achieved in the
dimension of place quality.