Evolution and Problems of Planning System in Scandinavian Society

Trials in Norway to Solve Environmental Conflicts

Abstract

Now urban planning system in each developed countries is required to respond many latest planning requirements, such as to settle environmental conflict, to encourage public participation and to promote decentralization. This study focuses in Norwegian several trials to clarifies how planning of the new era is going on. The importance of the “local rule” on making master plan and the limitation of the anti-sectionalizm for landuse-transport planning are significant findings of this research.