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of planning practice and communication media in planning. Likewise, the increas-
ing use of informal planning instruments at all strategic levels of planning, and the
ongoing debate about the appropriate agenda for transnational spatial planning,
also require planners to think 'outside the box', and to consider new ways for the
appropriate cartographic representation of dynamic and relational aspects of non-
binding spatial policy at a higher level of scale. The new agenda on European
spatial planning means that this will be an ongoing process, characterised by
mutual learning and incremental progress. The need to break with traditional epis-
temological assumptions of a rational-scientific cartography in planning, and to
prepare planners for future challenges arising from co-operation on informal spatial
strategies, and the appropriate cartographic representations for these, will require
significant changes in planning education.