Being or becoming? That is the question! Confronting complexity with contemporary planning theory

A Planner's Encounter with Complexity

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 19-40

  de Roo, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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