The Social Construction of Planning Systems: A Strategic-Relational Institutionalist Approach

Servillo, Loris Antonio; Broeck, Pieter Van den

doi:10.1080/02697459.2012.661179

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“…As these classifications over-emphasize the formal system of planning (Nadin & Stead, 2008), we broadened the analytical framework by looking into the emerging debate on "planning culture" as well as considering the institutionalist perspective (Servillo and Van den Broeck, 2012). In this debate, planning systems are seen as inextricably linked to their wider models of society (Stead & Nadin, 2009, p. 283, cited in Maier, 2012, to the socio-economic dynamics, and also to the cultural norms and traditions (Knieling & Othengrafen, 2009, p. xxviii).…”

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“…Dynamics in the Romanian spatial planning system after 1989 based on conceptual dimensions drawn by Servillo & Van den Broeck (2012) (source: authors). 1989-1996 1997-2000 2001-2004 2004-2008 2008-2012 Socio-political dimension ( 1989-1996 1997-2000 2001-2004 2004-2008 2008-2012 Discursive dimension Rebranding of spatial planning from the infamous "sistematizare" to "urbanism & amenajarea teritoriului", following sustainable development discourses.…”

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

Munteanu

Servillo

2013

European Planning Studies

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This paper addresses the post-communist history of Romania's spatial planning system with the two-fold aim of describing its evolution and identifying the role played by the EU in this process. Taking as a starting point the contradiction between the formal goals of Romanian spatial planning and the actual spatial development patterns, the paper proposes a contextualized analysis of the system's changes. It complements the focus on the formal technical dimension with a look at the broader socio-political context, driving forces and path dependencies. It identifies five episodes within this time frame and argues that they were catalysed by factors outside the immediate technical dimension of spatial planning, such as the changes in the Romanian political scene, the dynamics in the governance and planning culture, the evolution of the economy, the actual development patterns and most notably, by the process of Europeanization. While often the role of the EU is taken for granted as a general positive force for Romania, the paper makes instead the distinction between the use of Europeanization as a rhetorical external driving force and the real changes brought about by the process.

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

Munteanu

Servillo

2013

European Planning Studies

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“…We thus explain why the permit system and its enforcement function the way they do today, how and why they evolved like this and how this impacts possible future developments. We base this analysis on an institutionalist approach as developed in previous and current research (Servillo and Van den Broeck, 2012;Van den Broeck, 2010, 2011Van den Broeck et al, 2013) and briefly described in Section 2. In Section 3 we give an overview of the evolution of the planning permit system, as produced by different actors and organized in different more or less consistent episodes.…”

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Whose Permits? The Tenacity of Permissive Development Control in Flanders

Broeck

Verachtert

2015

European Planning Studies

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This paper explains how a permissive planning permit system is embedded in Belgian/ Flemish society and how this contributes to urban sprawl. We base our analysis on an institutionalist approach as developed in previous and current research and analyse the Flemish planning permit system since 1962 as one of different interacting planning systems, all (re)produced, maintained, transformed and struggled over by specific individual and collective actors and shaped by a range of institutional dynamics. The analysis shows how in the dynamics of the Flemish planning permit system, a general struggle between actors defending property-based private initiative and actors arguing for collective action in space is especially apparent. In this struggle, property ownership expressed through a permissive planning permit system and limited enforcement of regulations is seen to be predominant, especially in the 1960s, 1980s and 2000s. Changes in the 1990s, making the planning permit system more strict, have partly and momentarily challenged the institutional frame which structures the predominant planning permit practice, but left the logic of individual property largely untouched. Today, the Flemish planning permit system has again been reoriented towards the protection of private property, which hampers the capacity of government to implement a coherent spatial policy.

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“…Alexander's multi-level perspective, for example, differentiates between macro, meso and micro norms (Alexander, 2005) and, recently, Moroni (2017) has argued for five levels of norms, from the pre-constitutional to civic society. Much more common is to discern between formal and informal institutions (Van Assche et al, 2012) or to assume that there is a 'strategic' level encompassing an operational one (Servillo and Van Den Broeck, 2012). Salet and Faludi (2000) distinguish between social, political and legal institutions of planning.…”

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Responsibility, polity, value: The (un)changing norms of planning practices

Savini

2018

Planning Theory

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To address the social, spatial and environmental problems of cities, planners often promote and engage with spatial practices that are intended to be experimental, innovative or transformative of existent processes. Yet, the actual nature of the novelty of these practices is often not explicit nor problematised by their proponents. This article develops an institutionalist framework to better appreciate the variegated nature of change in planning practices. It understands planning as embedded in, and simultaneously impacting on, three types of institutionalised norms: operational norms that define and allocate responsibilities among actors, collective norms that (re)produce planning polities and constitute the spatial-temporal context of their actions and constitutional norms that substantiate the idea of value defining the eligible stakeholders of a particular process. The article mobilises this framework and argues that contemporary planning practices convey a (a) shifting of responsibility towards individuals and households, (b) disaggregation of city regions through polycentric localism and (c) the reproduction of the process of accumulative valorisation of land. The article concludes reflecting on the complexity institutional change.

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The Social Construction of Planning Systems: A Strategic-Relational Institutionalist Approach

Cited by 63 publications

References 36 publications

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

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

Whose Permits? The Tenacity of Permissive Development Control in Flanders

Responsibility, polity, value: The (un)changing norms of planning practices

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