However, this rate of population growth has since slowed. Beyond this, it is also noted that since 2010, spatial planning has “lost its unitary institutional identity by having competencies for spatial planning, housing and nature management divided across three ministries” (Savini, 2013: 340). Gone are the days of large-scale national investments in such areas as housing, which were highly formative in shaping urban environments in decades past - particularly during periods of post war reconstruction and population growth.