‘Designing for a Region’ is an outlook for new approaches in regional planning.

To tackle spacial questions
The regional scale becomes increasingly important in tackling spatial questions such as larger scale decisions regarding the accommodation of dwelling needs or water storage projects. However, regional plan and policy making are subject to difficult and time-consuming processes. This is partly due to the novelty of the task, but is also related to a large number of institutional and other actors – and consequently to the important amount of negotiations that have to be organized.

New forms of regional planning
In this book the role of design as a key instrument of new forms of regional plan making is incorporated within a broader exploration of the context and challenges concerning regional development and coproduction. In this respect, the book deals with aspects bearing both on space and governance.

This publication has been made possible through funding by the Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur, Nicis Institute, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

Nancy Meijsmans is a researcher at the Chair of Urbanism at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the Catholic University Louvain (Belgium).