Enrico Gualini, University of Amsterdam, Holland. Graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano in 1988 and gained his PhD degree in Planning at the Dipartimento di Scienze del Territorio, Politecnico di Milano, in 1997. He is now based at the Amsterdam Study Centre for the Metropolitan Environment, University of Amsterdam, Holland.

• Contents: An 'Institutional Turn' in Planning Theory?: Governance and the challenges to institutional innovation; Redefining institutional issues: a planning-theoretical review; Perspectives on consensus-building in planning. An Experience in Institutional Innovation: The Cross-Acceptance Process in New Jersey: Introduction: a new planning style; Genealogy of the cross-acceptance process; Cross-acceptance: plans and procedures; Cross-acceptance: the coevolution of processes; Cross-acceptance: an interpretive summary; Conclusion: the fortune of cross-acceptance. Rethinking the Dimension of Institutionalization in Planning Practice: Planning, social interaction and institutionalization; New-institutionalist perspectives; Three relevant dimensions of institutionalization processes; Institutionalization processes and collective action; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

’The book should be of interest to those working in planning and public administration.’ Aslib Book Guide 'This book is a major contribution to the "institutional turn" in planning theory, reviewing a range of theoretical strands which have contributed to this arena and setting out a position on how planning can and should function within institutions.' Urban Studies