「找回區域」乃是近十餘年來在歐美規劃學界與實務界重新被倡導的重要課題，尤其當許多跨國界或跨行政區界而難以按既存的規劃體制解決的區域發展問題一再浮現時，有關跨區合作、結盟以及建構區域治理體制的主張，便被陸續提出與實踐。我國的區域計畫體制目前正處於制度變革的過程中，一個期待找回區域精神與追求區域功能性價值的區域計畫體制正要重新起步，然而這所涉及的乃是一個區域計畫如何被規劃與推動的整體治理問題。因此，本文將首先指出我國現行區域計畫的體制問題與治理困境，並對功能性區域治理的內涵要義有所說明。進一步本文將引介德、英、法、美與比利時等國解決區域發展問題以及建構區域治理體制的實例經驗，再從案例經驗中歸納出幾種不同的治理體制類型。本文也嘗試參採新體制論、漸進調適理論、都市機制理論以及調節理論的觀點，提出「區域治理體制之有機調適模式」的分析架構，用以更深入闡析區域治理體制運作過程的主要變項與動態關係。最後筆者也參酌國外的案例經驗，對國內未來的體制發展提出建議。

“Rediscovering the region” has become an important practical and academic theme in the Western planning field for more than a decade. It’s especially true when we are confronted with problems that involve cross-nation or –border issues and are therefore not subject to conventional planning and administrative solutions. Cross-jurisdictional co-operation, alliance, and the establishment of regional governance systems have been proposed and tested. The institutions of regional planning in this country are currently being transformed, in order to launch a regional planning system that respects regionalism and area-wide functions. This attempt implicates the question of governance, namely, how regional plans should be made and imposed. This paper first examines problems and predicaments of the existing regional planning system, and explains ideas of regional governance. Then the paper introduces and categorizes experiences of solving regional development problems and founding relevant management systems in Germany, the U. K., France, the U. S. A., and Belgium. Efforts are also made to apply neo-institutionalism, incrementalism, urban regime theory and regulation theory in constructing an analytic model of “organic-adaptation”, which describes the major variables and dynamic political processes in regional governance. Finally, based on the lessons from foreign cases, the author makes suggestions for relevant future institutional development in this country.