Romanian Spatial Planning System: Post-Communist Dynamics of Change and Europeanization Processes

Munteanu, Mircea; Servillo, Loris Antonio

doi:10.1080/09654313.2013.830696

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“…In Romania, contradictory development policies, such as funding built-up development on agricultural areas while adopting planning norms that promote rational land use (Munteanu and Servillo, 2013), provided the emerging real estate market with new opportunities for land speculation. Moreover, the urban planning laws and regulations adopted after the 2000s proved inefficient due to the practice of exception driven urbanism (Nae and Turnock, 2011).…”

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Land abandonment as a precursor of built-up development at the sprawling periphery of former socialist cities

Grădinaru

Iojă

Onose

et al. 2015

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Land abandonment as a precursor of built-up development at the sprawling periphery of former socialist cities

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Iojă

Onose

et al. 2015

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“…The Romanian planning system is not mature enough [59] to enable efficient control of urban sprawl, and to avoid 2 fragmentation of agricultural land. Moreover, national policies sometimes contradict the objectives of spatial planning [60], as the need to encourage and support economic development could override other land management strategies.…”

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Are spatial planning objectives reflected in the evolution of urban landscape patterns? A framework for the evaluation of spatial planning outcomes

Grădinaru¹,

Iojă²,

Pătru-Stupariu³

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Abstract:The evaluation of spatial planning results, or outcomes, has been rather neglected by scholars and practitioners. The causes of this neglect are linked to the characteristics of the planning systems in use or difficulties in quantifying results. To advance the state of the art of outcome evaluation, this paper focuses on assessing the implementation of national spatial planning objectives in urban landscapes, through the use of an evaluation framework that makes use of spatially explicit information. The framework is built on four dimensions which reflect the main domains of spatial planning: efficient built-up development, conservation of agricultural land, landscape preservation, and human perception. Indicators capable of capturing landscape changes in both time and space are used to verify degree of conformance between adopted objectives and actual development patterns. We make use of spatially explicit data and assess whether and where landscape changes occurred, by integrating the framework into a multi-criteria analysis. In the present study, the framework is tested in two study areas in Switzerland and Romania, and the results are interpreted from the perspective of spatial planning approaches in the two countries. The efficiency and utility of the framework is demonstrated by its ability to provide valuable information facilitating improvement in the performance of planning processes, such as identifying where the implementation of objectives is less effective, and the domains of spatial planning that are affected. Our findings highlight that the distance between objectives and outcomes can be attributed to differences in countries' spatial planning approaches, particularly regarding landscape preservation and management. Our study provides valuable insights for the integration of time series of spatial data into the evaluation procedure.Key words: planning evaluation; spatial planning objectives; urban landscape; spatial multi-criteria analysis; romania; switzerland. Highlights:Preprints ( Peer-reviewed version available at Sustainability 2017, 9, 1279; doi:10.3390/su9081279 2• We propose a framework to verify conformance between planning intentions and outcomes • Planning objectives are partially reflected in land change patterns• The distance between intentions and outcomes is attributed to national planning approaches• Results show the efficiency and utility of the framework in a case study analysis

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“…The Romanian planning system is not mature enough [24] to facilitate efficient control of urban sprawl and avoid fragmentation of agricultural land. Romanian national policies on economic development sometimes contradict the objectives of spatial planning [58], with the need to encourage and support the economy possibly overriding land management strategies. Especially in the case of Bucharest, our results are similar to those of Ianoş, Sorensen and Merciu [57], who note that land changes overrun the planning process.…”

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“…The comparison was conducted by analysing the spatial planning legislation and planning practices of the two countries [20,25,[57][58][59]. Although both countries have common objectives (as outlined in Table 1), information on how planning is performed could provide details regarding the reasons behind the success or failure of the implementation.…”

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Are Spatial Planning Objectives Reflected in the Evolution of Urban Landscape Patterns? A Framework for the Evaluation of Spatial Planning Outcomes

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Abstract:The evaluation of spatial planning results, or outcomes, has been rather neglected by scholars and practitioners. The causes of this neglect are linked to the characteristics of the planning systems in use or difficulties in quantifying results. To advance the state of the art of outcome evaluation, this paper focuses on assessing the implementation of national spatial planning objectives in urban landscapes through the use of an evaluation framework, which makes use of spatially explicit information. The framework is built around four dimensions, which reflect the main domains of spatial planning: efficient built-up development, conservation of agricultural land, landscape preservation and human perception. Indicators that are capable of capturing landscape changes in both time and space are used to verify the degree of conformance between adopted objectives and actual development patterns. We make use of spatially explicit data, as well as assess whether and where landscape changes occurred, by integrating the framework into a multi-criteria analysis. In the present study, the framework is tested in two study areas located in Switzerland and Romania, while the results are interpreted from the perspective of spatial planning approaches in the two countries. The efficiency and utility of the framework are demonstrated by the ability to provide valuable information that facilitates improvement in the performance of planning processes, such as identifying where the implementation of objectives is less effective, and the domains of affected spatial planning. Our findings indicate that the distance between objectives and outcomes can be attributed to differences in countries' spatial planning approaches, which should also be placed into the wider economic, institutional and legislative context. Our study provides valuable insights for the integration of time series of spatial data into the evaluation procedure.Keywords: planning evaluation; conformance; urban landscape; spatial multi-criteria analysis; Romania; Switzerland The distance between intentions and outcomes is attributed to the planning strategies, along with the overall planning tradition, economic conditions and the legislative context.

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Romanian Spatial Planning System: Post-Communist Dynamics of Change and Europeanization Processes

Cited by 30 publications

References 21 publications

Land abandonment as a precursor of built-up development at the sprawling periphery of former socialist cities

Land abandonment as a precursor of built-up development at the sprawling periphery of former socialist cities

Are spatial planning objectives reflected in the evolution of urban landscape patterns? A framework for the evaluation of spatial planning outcomes

Are Spatial Planning Objectives Reflected in the Evolution of Urban Landscape Patterns? A Framework for the Evaluation of Spatial Planning Outcomes

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