Investigating territorial management tools of spatial planning system in Portugal

Spatial planning system of a country is the array of its planning systems. Getting familiar with spatial planning system of different countries and their experiences could help for comparison and accommodation so that making decision and defining appropriateplanning system could be done. This article has studied the spatial planning system of Portugal and since there are different factors affecting on the system which are geographical, social, economic, historical and political status, they have been mentioned first and then history of spatial planning and its actual planning with different plansand related rules have been explained. The reasons to select this country are its rapid economic growth and consequently other changes of its spatial planning in recent years.