Subject(s): Regional planning -- Rural development -- Urbanization -- Developing countries. -- National Planning -- Urbanization in global economy : Contradictions between city and village, critique of strategy of crisis management, world city formation, life space and economic space- contradictions in regional development, Barrio economy and collective self-empowerment in Latin America -- Spatial aspects of national planning :Spatial organization of power in development of Urban systems, urban bias in regional development, active community- toward a political territorial framework for rural development in Asia, political and technical moments in planning- agropolitan development revisited, planning in Latin America- technocratic illusion to open democracy