Power Shifts in the European Union? The Case of Spatial Planning

Eser, Thiemo W.; Konstadakopulos, Dimitrios

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“…socio-demographic trends) than across many member states of the European Union (EU) (Haintrais, 2009). In various federal and "regionalized" states in Europe, competence for spatial planning is at the sub-national level which means that a diversity of planning practices and policies can be found (Eser & Konstadakopulos, 2000), and it is, therefore, more difficult to generalize about a national planning system in these cases. The difficulties of international comparison are accommodated to different degrees in different types of comparative study.…”

Section: The Methodological Challenges Of Characterizing Planning Sysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opening up the Compendium: An Evaluation of International Comparative Planning Research Methodologies

Nadin

Stead

2013

European Planning Studies

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It is two decades since the European Compendium of Spatial Planning Systems and Policies was conceived. Since its publication in 1997, the Compendium has become a widely cited reference in comparative planning literature. 1 It remains one of the few comprehensive reviews of spatial planning policy and practice across western Europe. The Compendium also represents one of the few studies to develop a typology for distinguishing between national planning systems. A number of comparative research studies on spatial planning have since built on the methodological foundations laid by the Compendium although its typology of national planning systems is not always used or interpreted as originally intended for a variety of reasons. In the context of extensive reform of planning approaches in Europe, the paper examines what can be learned about methodologies for international comparative research in planning based on the experience of the Compendium study and subsequent major comparative planning studies. We conclude that while broad typologies remain useful in explaining general trends, they may hide as much as they reveal. Future studies should widen the criteria used to build ideal types beyond formal characteristics in order to address planning in practice.

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Section: The Methodological Challenges Of Characterizing Planning Sysmentioning

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Opening up the Compendium: An Evaluation of International Comparative Planning Research Methodologies

Nadin

Stead

2013

European Planning Studies

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“…Spatial planning is a "Euro-English term" (Faludi and Waterhout 2002) that has often replaced the term "spatial development." According to Eser and Konstadakopulos (2000), spatial development encompasses a broader and more modern understanding of spatial planning. In this article, spatial development and planning are understood as overlapping conceptions that refer to the processes of (re-)producing space.…”

Section: European Space In Spatial Planning 399mentioning

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Making European Space in Spatial Planning in Northern Finland

Luukkonen

2012

Growth and Change

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The article explores European integration in northern Finland. It examines the discursive side of the European integration process by investigating the interplay between European‐level spatial policies and regional territorial practices. Spatial planning is often portrayed from an instrumentalist view as a technical, evidence‐based policy. However, spatial planning is highly political and an effective way of space making: As an inclusive and/or exclusive action, it (re‐)defines spatial relations and (re‐)produces spatial scales. Thus, spatial planning is considered here as a central part of the European integration process through which the regions are spatialized as part of Europe. The empirical analysis shows that polycentrism is the main spatial idea underlying the reorganization of European space. The adaptation to European policies manifests itself through the subjectification, rescaling and relocation of the region.

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“…in academic debates, the term is sometimes either replaced with or used alongside the terms spatial development, strategic planning and strategic spatial planning. the differences between the terms have been mainly argued through the scope, the spatial scale (or whether there is spatiality at all) and the temporal orientation of the activity in question (see, e.g., williams 1996; Eser and Konstadakopulos 2000;Böhme 2002;Healey 2009). However, as the differences between the terms are more or less subtle and the definitions are partially overlapping (cf.…”

Section: Spatial Planning As Politics Of Scalementioning

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The europeanization of regional development: local strategies and european spatial visions in northern finland

Luukkonen

2011

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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lUUKKonEn, J. (2011): 'the Europeanization of regional development: local strategies and European spatial visions in northern finland', Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 93 (3): 253-270.ABStrAct. By exploring the Europeanization of current practices of regional spatial planning, this article sets out to demonstrate the evolution of the European integration project. Specifically, by creating spaces of engagement to which the local and regional actors are "forced" to adapt, the emergence of European spatial planning has made planning practices at the regional level more complex and complicated. As such, the present study contributes to the current understandings of Europeanization by exploring the European integration process through the geographical conceptualizations of space and scale. these conceptualizations are used to illustrate the multidimensionality, complexity and subtlety of the geographies of Europeanization. the empirical investigations show that regional and local spatial policies are strongly engagedboth explicitly through the "technicalities" and implicitly through the "mentalities" -to the spaces of Europeanization. the engagement affects the effectiveness of sub-regional spatial planning by promoting mismatches between the strategic frameworks and the material practices of the policy. overall, the article illustrates that the geographies of Europeanization are continuous processes, which take place -often unrecognizably -in manifold discursive and material practices in various geographical contexts.

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Power Shifts in the European Union? The Case of Spatial Planning

Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

Opening up the Compendium: An Evaluation of International Comparative Planning Research Methodologies

Opening up the Compendium: An Evaluation of International Comparative Planning Research Methodologies

Making European Space in Spatial Planning in Northern Finland

The europeanization of regional development: local strategies and european spatial visions in northern finland

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