Strategic Spatial Planning: Responding to Diverse Territorial Development Challenges: Towards an Inductive Comparative Approach

Walsh, Cormac; Allin, S

doi:10.1080/13563475.2012.726852

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“…Nor do they consider the range of interpretations found in contemporary practice. Case studies from various countries, regions, and cities show that strategic planning can be understood in different ways, that planners may emphasize different aspects of this broad planning field, depending on the issues addressed, and that the outcome may depend more or less strongly on institutional inertia and stakeholder interests (Albrechts et al, 2017;Cavenago & Trivellato, 2010;Davoudi & Strange, 2009;Healey, Khakee, Motte, & Needham, 1997;Newman, 2008;Walsh & Allin, 2012).…”

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Perform or conform? Looking for the strategic in municipal spatial planning in Sweden

Persson

2019

European Planning Studies

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In recent decades, various strategic approaches to spatial planning have been introduced and implemented in Sweden, although the planning system itself has not fundamentally changed. However, strategic spatial planning is not a fixed and regulated institutional practice in either planning in general or in the Swedish planning system. To investigate strategic planning practice in Sweden, 16 recently approved comprehensive plans were studied to elucidate how strategic planning is understood and conceptualized by planners and then expressed in a statutory planning instrument. Although there is no 'right theory' of strategic planning, to avoid an 'anything-goes' attitude towards strategic planning, the contents of the studied plans were set against an ideal, normative model compiled from the academic debate, thus researching practice in dialogue with theory. The results indicate that comprehensive plans, rather than being contextually embedded, follow generic models of environmental scanning and strategy making, and most visions reiterate common political goals and slogans found everywhere. The plans often become catalogues of detailed instructions that, although not legally binding, tend to steer practice into predefined paths framed by generic doctrines within the planning community, rather than being the flexible and open-minded planning instruments that academic ideals prescribe.

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Perform or conform? Looking for the strategic in municipal spatial planning in Sweden

Persson

2019

European Planning Studies

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“…In theoretical discussions and practical experiences about planned processes of territorial development, in a more comprehensive viewpoint, it is suggested that choosing the appropriate strategy represents a predominant factor to reach development results, since it cannot be transplanted or copied from one place to another. This strategy's selection is partly shaped by local power relationships and local institutional configuration, besides cultural characteristics and history (TAVARES, 2011;AFFUSO, CAPELLO and FRATESI, 2011;WALSH and ALLIN, 2012;BAETEN, SWYNGEDOUW and ALBRECHTS, 1999). However, empirical studies record the ignorance or disregard history and culture as part of the identity of a territory (ROCHA and ALMEIDA, 2005;HAESBAERT, 2007;SHILLING, 2008).…”

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Governança territorial e inovação social nos processos de desenvolvimento regional em territórios de mineração: um modelo teórico em construção

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There are serious contradictions between the proclaimed economic benefits obtained by localities where the mineral extraction industry historically operates, and the results recorded in research work. Studies have pointed out serious problems and negative consequences from the mineral extraction industry’s questionable form of management and relationship with the local environment. These practices have increased the socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability of the territories, both in local and regional dimensions. Studies about development indicate the existence of a positive relationship between governance and economic growth, and between innovation and economic growth. There are also studies that point out innovative processes as essential to local and regional development because they prioritize the territorial diversity and develop opportunities focused on the profile of each region. However, this discussion is still restricted to the economic and exclusive point of view of the industrial sector, which limits the analysis from the perspective of regional development. To unravel the nature of the still unclear relationship between territorial governance and social innovation and the effects of this relationship in regional development processes in mining territories, this article raises a set of six theoretical propositions, which forms a schematic model for further empirical investigation. The aim is to use this model to search for similarities and peculiarities, and to establish parallel or comparative analysis between diverse and different case studies.

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Intersecting Territorial Development, Spatial Planning, and Marketing: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Post-Conflict Ukraine

Zavalniy,

Vishnevsky,

Cirella

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Strategic Spatial Planning: Responding to Diverse Territorial Development Challenges: Towards an Inductive Comparative Approach

Cited by 12 publications

References 39 publications

Perform or conform? Looking for the strategic in municipal spatial planning in Sweden

Perform or conform? Looking for the strategic in municipal spatial planning in Sweden

Governança territorial e inovação social nos processos de desenvolvimento regional em territórios de mineração: um modelo teórico em construção

Intersecting Territorial Development, Spatial Planning, and Marketing: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Post-Conflict Ukraine

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