Positioning regional planning across Europe

Smas, Lukas; Schmitt, Peter

doi:10.1080/00343404.2020.1782879

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“…Comparing the regulatory intensity in 2009 and 2017, we see that plan revisions have resulted only in minor—if any—changes. This ties in with the findings of previous studies that formal regional planning, introduced widely in Germany in the 1960s, is in a state of maturity (Smas & Schmitt, 2020). This also relates to the entire formal German planning system in which regional planning is embedded (Münter & Reimer, 2020).…”

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Unintended effects of regional planning in Germany

Eichhorn

Pehlke

2022

Growth and Change

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Regional planning plays a central role in Germany's multi‐level system for managing regional and local land use, giving concrete shape to state planning specifications and providing municipalities with binding guidelines for urban land use planning. While planning proponents affirm the positive effects of regional planning such as reduced land consumption and less urban sprawl, representatives of neoclassical urban economic theory see regulation as the reason for lower economic growth. With the help of fixed effects panel models, we examine the impact of regional planning regulations on the housing market, migration and prices in Germany's growing labor market regions. We conclude that regional planning regulations reduce construction activity. However, this effect is relatively small and does not raise building land prices and rents. Nevertheless, results indicate that the lower level of construction activity—due to strict regional planning regulations—contributes to weaker overall population growth. Based on our results, we cannot confirm important predictions of neoclassical urban theory regarding the effects of regional planning regulations on labor migration patterns and downstream processes for Germany.

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confidence: 87%

Unintended effects of regional planning in Germany

Eichhorn

Pehlke

2022

Growth and Change

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“…After serving as a leader in state growth management during the 1980s, the state of Florida gutted its growth management act in 2011. Other states experienced political backlash, a shift in policy priorities over time, or a reallocation of planning responsibilities among state, regional, and local governments (Friedmann/Bloch 1990;Porter 1999;Smas/ Schmitt 2021). Globally, the institutional and instrumental performance of urban growth management was curtailed or reformed during the neoliberal-influenced 1990s and 2000s (see Tasan-Kok/Baeten 2012).…”

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Managing Urban Growth – an Overview of the Literature

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Schmidt²,

Dunlop³

2022

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Today, most countries in the global north have developed and implemented urban growth management (UGM) programs and policies aimed at mitigating the impacts and negative externalities of urban sprawl and achieving a more compact urban form. However, there is substantial disagreement about their effectiveness and effects of these programs. In this paper, we systematically review the extensive literature on growth management to better understand a) the current state of the practice of UGM, and b) the determinants of successful UGM implementation. Compared to previously available literature syntheses, which focus heavily on North American research, we also take into account studies based in Europe and some Asian and Oceanic countries. From this literature, we identify several key factors to successful growth management implementation: a multi-level governance approach, intersectoral policy coordination, a regionally adapted mix of policy instruments, balancing development needs with preservation goals, and the ability to develop positive narratives around growth management.

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“…Taylor et al, however, argue that most cities were not motivated to develop stakeholder relations for such collective capacity-building, but instead framed their actions in terms of expert-driven, technocratic planning. Smas and Schmitt's (2020, in this issue) comparative perspective reveals a common loss of territorial synchrony between administrative systems and planning systems, resulting in tensions between multiple regional planning levels. This is most prominent when metropolitan regions gain new planning competences vis-à-vis rural and peripheral regions.…”

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Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations

2021

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This special issue approaches regional planning as a contested arena of strategic planning. With this view, we transcend the idea that regional planning is purely a matter of scale and approach the complexity of regional planning from three perspectives: interests, institutions and relations. The perspective of 'interests' reveals the various underlying motivations connected to regional planning. The perspective of 'institutions' addresses the encounter of formal and informal rules, norms and discourses shaping planning and governance practices. The perspective of 'relations' uncovers the complex constellations of actors and processes associated with planning, involving various administrative scales, territorial entities and sectoral policies.

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Positioning regional planning across Europe

Cited by 27 publications

References 49 publications

Unintended effects of regional planning in Germany

Unintended effects of regional planning in Germany

Managing Urban Growth – an Overview of the Literature

Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations

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