European territorial cohesion policies: Parallels to socialist central planning?

Malý, Jiří; Mulíček, Ondřej

doi:10.1515/mgr-2016-0002

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“…Besides other interpretations of territorial cohesion, the fundamental storyline ‘Europe in Balance’ (as identified by Waterhout ), which combines the French spatial planning tradition ‘aménagement du territoire’ (regional economic approach) with an integrated comprehensive approach (applied in Germany), is focused on levelling regional disparities (Faludi ). From this perspective, a similarity with socialist spatial planning tradition can be observed (Malý and Mulíček ). The Territorial Agenda of the EU 2020 (EU Ministers Responsible for Spatial Development , p. 2) states that territorial cohesion “enables equal opportunities for citizens and enterprises, wherever they are located, to make the most of their territorial potentials”.…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 68%

Questioning territorial cohesion: (Un)equal access to services of general interest

Malý

2018

Papers in Regional Science

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Although the debates about access to services of general interest have been at the core of the EU territorial cohesion discourse since the late 1990s, the impact of unequal accessibility to living conditions has yet be the subject of close inspection. The paper examines the relationship between the accessibility of services of general interest and demographic and socio‐economic conditions in a specific Czech region. The analysis reveals inter‐municipal disparities and identifies spatially excluded areas. Despite the negative association of insufficient access with education and depopulation characteristics, the results suggest that demographic and socio‐economic development stems from a more complex set of factors.

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Questioning territorial cohesion: (Un)equal access to services of general interest

Malý

2018

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“…Despite the relatively frequent criticism of the contemporary EU territorial cohesion policy coming especially from Central and Eastern Europe, mentioning its late outset and some of its aspects being reminiscent of socialist central planning (e.g. Török, 2015;Malý & Mulíček, 2016), we side with the opinion of other authors on the importance and the necessity of supporting regional policy in its efforts to define and delineate metropolitan areas and gradually institutionalize them.…”

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confidence: 85%

Different approaches to defining metropolitan areas (Case study: cities of Brno and Ostrava, Czech Republic)

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ABSTRACT:The definition and delimitation of metropolitan areas has been the focus of many geographers and other specialists for quite a few decades. The complexity and diversity of the methods and techniques used, and the differing attitudes of those working in this area have brought considerably different, and often controversial, results. The EU has introduced a tool, Integrated Territorial Investments (ITI), to support study in this area by motivating EU member states to define their metropolitan areas. This article will introduce the methodological approaches related to the functional integration of regional units and to inter-regional relations, used with ITI to delimit the metropolitan areas in two large cities, Brno (monocentric system) and Ostrava (polycentric system), and will compare the results with those achieved using our own method. Through a comparison of the results this article will examine the efficacy of the methods previously used and their possible transferability to studies of metropolitan areas with completely different settlement systems. Finally, this article will consider whether a unification of previously fragmented approaches is possible.

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“…The processes of urbanization and industrialization that took place until 1900 stabilized the network of micro‐regional centres, while in the period prior to the Second World War mainly the position of Prague (and several other big cities like Brno, Ostrava, or Plzeň) were strengthened (Hampl, Gardavský, & Kühnl, ). During the second half of the 20th century the Czech Republic (as a part of the former Czechoslovakia) belonged to the group of Central East European socialist countries that were marked by relatively high levels of pre‐socialist industrialization and urbanization, at least when compared to the rest of the socialist block (Dingsdale, ; Malý & Mulíček, ). The socialist industrialization, introduced in the near post‐war period, was meant as a prominent political and economic goal that was, however, accompanied by significant socio‐spatial impacts (Malík, ).…”

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Moving towards more cohesive and polycentric spatial patterns? Evidence from the Czech Republic

Mulíček

Malý

2019

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Territorial cohesion discourse represents normative and ideological vision of ideal spatial practices that should be applied in order to ensure balanced and polycentric spatial development. However, spatial diversity of existing territorial settings often diverge from political representations of spaces. Using the Czech Republic as a case study, the paper focuses on the development of urban system hierarchy by analysing the changes of work‐commuting flows in the post‐socialist period. The results show that the configurations of everyday spatial routines and functioning of real urban systems differ from political imaginaries to a great extent and are moving towards a more polarized pattern.

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European territorial cohesion policies: Parallels to socialist central planning?

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Cited by 23 publications

References 26 publications

Questioning territorial cohesion: (Un)equal access to services of general interest

Questioning territorial cohesion: (Un)equal access to services of general interest

Different approaches to defining metropolitan areas (Case study: cities of Brno and Ostrava, Czech Republic)

Moving towards more cohesive and polycentric spatial patterns? Evidence from the Czech Republic

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