Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations

Abstract

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.

Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: the shift towards ‘syncurbanization’ in polycentric urban regions

“…This includes the attention of core-core, core-hinterland and hinterland-hinterland relations inside and across urban regions as well as the distinction of cores according to their character of town-ness and city-ness and how they play together (Humer & Granqvist, 2020;Taylor et al, 2010). New, futureoriented approaches to, and perspectives on, regional planning (Harrison et al, 2021a;Purkarthofer et al, 2021a) carry some possible answers for planning in a syncurbanization period, which start with an urban-regional strategic planning practice beyond statutory boundaries (Granqvist et al, 2021) and continue towards a new culture of regional planning at large (Harrison et al, 2021b;Purkarthofer et al, 2021b).…”

The bigger the better? The new ‘macro’ regions in France in the lens of territorial changes in Europe

“…The contributors deliver insightful theoretical approaches and documented empirical case studies, which allows to better grasp the impact of territorial reforms on planning policiesnot to say polities. Most of the papers focus in particular on a regional, intermediate scale, at a time when we can observe a renewed interest for regions, regionalization and regional planning (Perrin 2017;Abels and Battke 2019 ;Seys 2019a, 2019b;Lingua and Balz 2020;Perrin 2021;Harrison, Galland, and Tewdwr-Jones 2021 ;Purkarthofer, Humer, and Mäntysalo 2021;Neuman and Zonneveld 2021).…”

Trend Research Of Rural Broadcasting On Communication Science Based On Bibliometric Approach

“…The rules and quasi-rules governing scientific endeavors were defined using Price and Bradford's laws of scattering. Furthermore, the clusters of keywords were analyzed using evolutionary analysis to determine the trends and routes used by authors (Purkarthofer et al, 2021;van Eck & Waltman, 2010).…”