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Natural regions are easily defined in terms of mountain chains, river basins or climatic zones, but places constituted partly or wholly on the basis of human activities prove less stable and evolve in ways that present challenges for the urban planning imagination.

The scalar sensibility inherent in urban planning thought and practice remains important to discerning differences in the style of urban planning within nations. As we ascend scales, urban planning typically becomes less concerned with regulation of the use of space and more strategic, framework-setting and visionary (ESPON, 2018). A scalar sensibility is important to appreciating some of the international contrasts to be found in urban planning. Thus, ‘Perhaps the major difference between plans and planning frameworks in the United States and Europe is the issue of scale’ (Knaap et al., 2015b: 511). Where issues of land-use regulation and urban design at the neighbourhood scale exercise minds in the US, in Europe they are taken for granted given the greater historical preservation offered by regulatory frameworks.