Contents
List of figures ix
List if tables x
List if contributors xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xx
1 Spatial planning systems and practices in Europe: a comparative perspective by Mario Reimer, Panagiotis Getimis and Hans Heinrich Blotevogel 1
1 Introduction 1
2 Comparative spatial planning research revisited : some methodological remarks 2
3 Europeanization of spatial planning: convergence or divergence? Or both? 5
4 Context matters: a multi-scalar analytical framework for comparative spatial planning research 8
5 Methodological framework for comparative analysis: some hypotheses 12
2 The Danish planning system 1990-2010: continuity and decay by Ole Damsgaard 21
Introduction 21
2 The Danish planning system 22
3 Problems and challenges 23
4 Dimensions and directions of change 36
5 Conclusion 39
3 The recent development of the Finnish planning system: the city of Vantaa as an executor, fighter and independent actor by Sari Hirvonen - Kantola And Rain E Man Tysalo 42
Introduction 42
2 The Finnish planning system 45
3 Problems and challenges 48
4 Dimensions and directions of change 51
5 Conclusion 55
4 Dutch national spatial planning at the end of an era by Wil Zonneveld and David Evers 61
1 Introduction 61
2 The institutionalization of Dutch spatial planning 63
3 Fundamental change within national spatial planning 68
4 Current developments, challenges and controversy 73
5 Conclusion 76
5 Spatial planning in Germany: institutional inertia and new challenges by Hans Heinrich Blotevogel, Rainer Danielzyk and Angelika Munter
1 Introduction 83
2 Description of the system 84
3 Old and new challenges 90
4 Dimensions and directions of change 100
5 Conclusion 105
6 France, drifting away from the "regional economic" approach by Anna Geppert 109
1 Introduction 109
2 State of the art : losing the characteristics of the "regional economic" approach110
3 Problems and challenges 114
4 Dimensions and directions of change 115
5 Conclusion 124
7 The modernization of the Italian planning system by Valeria Lingua and Loris Servillo 127
1 Introduction 127
2 The Italian planning system: structural characteristics 128
3 Problems, challenges and attempts at modernization 130
4 Driving forces, challenges and direction of change 135
5 Conclusion 143
8 The evolution of spatial planning in Greece after the 1990s: drivers, directions and agents of change by Panagiotis Getimis and Georgia Giannakourou 149
1 Introduction 149
2 Setting the scene 150
3 Identification of new problems and challenges during the 1990s and 2000s: the need for a spatial planning reform 152
4 Dimensions and directions of change in the 1990s and 2000s 155
5 Main actors triggering changes in the Greek planning system 161
6 Greek spatial planning after the economic crisis: 2010-2012 163
7 Conclusion 165
9 Spatial planning in Flanders: serving a bypassed capitalism? vy Pieter Van Den Broeck, Frank Moulaert, Annette Kuhk, Els Lievois and Jan Schreurs 169
1 Introduction 169
2 A technical history of spatial planning in Flanders: from land-use planning to spatial structure planning and back 170
3 Institutional dynamics of Flemish spatial planning since 1962 172
4 Challenges for spatial structure planning in Flanders 182
5 Conclusion 183
10 Spatial planning in the United Kingdom, 1990-2013 by Vincent Nadin and Dominic Stead 189
1 Introduction 189
2 The UK planning systems 190
3 Problems and challenges 194
4 Dimensions and directions of change: three waves197
5 Conclusion
11Changing planning in the Czech Republic by Karel Maier 215
1 Introduction 215
2 Description of the system 216
3 Problems and challenges 222
4 Dimensions and direction of change 226
5 Conclusion 233
12 Spatial and strategic planning in Turkey: institutional change
and new challenges by Gulden Erkut and Ervin Sezgin
1 Introduction 236
2 Features, problems and challenges of the spatial planning system in Turkey 237
3 Dimensions and directions of change in the planning system 243
4 Emerging actors and their influence on decision -making and urban/regional change 247
5 Perspectives for and new challenges to the fostering of regional and urban development and strategic spatial planning 250
6 Conclusion 251
13 Spatial planning in Poland between European influence and 9.2
dominant market forces by Giancarlo Cotella 255
1 Introduction 255
2 Spatial planning in Poland after 1989: a state of the art 256
3 Main challenges and drivers of change 261
4 Dimensions and directions of change 263
5 Conclusion 272
14 Conclusion: multiple trends of continuity and change by Panagiotis Getimis, Mario Reimer and Hans Heinrich Blotevogel 278
1 Problems, challenges and driving forces 279
2 Dimensions of change 281
3 Evaluation of change and continuity 296
4 Summary 303
Index 306