TY - SER AU - Medeiros, Eduardo AU - Silva, Elisabete A. TI - Spatial Planning, Territorial Development, and Territorial Impact Assessment PY - 2019/// PB - Sage KW - spatial planning, KW - policy evaluation KW - territorial impact assessment KW - territorial development KW - Europeanization/EUization N2 - This article debates the possibilities and advantages of using territorial impact assessment (TIA) policy evaluation methodologies to assess the implementation of spatial planning instruments. It builds on existing literature to define key analytical goals, dimensions, and respective components to monitor and evaluate the implementation of spatial plans, at all territorial levels, to be used as a TIA evaluation matrix. It concludes that, despite the inherent complexity associated with the process of evaluating spatial planning processes, there are manifest advantages to using TIA tools to evaluate them, mostly at the ex post phase UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/0885412219831375 ER -