Present day Australian landscapes are legacies of our colonial history, while future landscapes will be legacies of ecological processes and human impacts occurring today.

The short review of the space protection efficiency in European countries and in Serbia has been given.

Berlin’s unification in the last 12 years was not only a political, social or civil task to be solved, but it was essential to go with a readable and coherent urban structure. This was attempted with the elaboration of the 'Planwerk Innenstadt', a structural land use plan for central Berlin covering an area of 30 km2.

In this paper, the capitalization, urban land management and planning routine have been explored. The focus dwells on the praxis and urban planning perspectives as a link and means for realizing the public interest in space and the role of 'urban transplants' as a lever of urban development.

As elsewhere in the ex-communist/socialist countries, the former planning system in Yugoslavia has been dismantled as from the beginning of 1990s, and the planning practice has from then onwards been steered by an apart mixture of old habits, few institutional innovations and the social, economic and political turbulence of the transition period.

Op het raakvlak van stad en land bevindt zich een gebied waarin vele, zowel rode als groene, processen een rol spelen. Binnen het huidige voorgestelde beleid op het gebied van ruimtelijke ordening, in de vorm van de Vijfde Nota Ruimtelijke Ordening enhet concept stedelijke netwerken, wordt echter geen aandacht besteed aan hoe vorm zou moeten worden gegeven aan dit gebied.