%0 Journal Article %T CHALLENGES OF URBAN PLANNING AT THE FACE OF COUNTER-URBANIZATION %A Kazi Saiful ISLAM %J Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management %D 2009 %I Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Academy of Economic Studies %X Counter-urban movement is becoming more and more common phenomenon nowadays. Several countries have started loosing population; many other are facing tremendous loss of urban population. This paper has addressed the global and local challenges and issues of counter-urban movement and subsequently their response pattern at the same scale. %K Counter-urbanization %K global and local challenge %K urban planning %U http://um.ase.ro/No11/13.pdf