Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness?

This paper argues that a planning system that allows its policies and practices to gradually lose spatial consciousness and spatial coordination capacities within and across different levels of planning administration is less likely to make national and regional plans and strategies matter or have a...

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Autores principales: Daniel Galland, Stig Enemark
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:373c8a51e8f84d9f915fa0f3129ac0922021-12-02T00:09:16ZImpact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness?1650-9544https://doaj.org/article/373c8a51e8f84d9f915fa0f3129ac0922013-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.nordregio.se/Global/EJSD/Refereed%20articles/refereed52.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/1650-9544This paper argues that a planning system that allows its policies and practices to gradually lose spatial consciousness and spatial coordination capacities within and across different levels of planning administration is less likely to make national and regional plans and strategies matter or have a say in future spatial development processes. The reasoning behind this argument stems from the case of Denmark, where a structural reform that changed the country’s geographies of inter-governmental arrangements in 2007 significantly transformed the configuration and functioning of the national planning system. Originally designed to support the principle of equal development through spatial planning policies aimed at the promotion of equal access to public and private services across the national territory, the Danish planning policy framework has increasingly evolved towards expressing a lack of explicit spatial consciousness in its current plans and strategies. At the same time, the Danish planning system seems to reveal narrower measures of spatial coherence in terms of horizontal and vertical coordination and integration of sectors and policies within and across different levels of planning administration. Based on an analysis regarding the evolution of planning policies and an examination of the current governance landscape influencing planning practices at national and regional levels, the paper attempts to generate an understanding concerning how the underlying rationale and the institutional relations of Danish spatial planning have been reoriented over time.Daniel GallandStig EnemarkPolitecnico di Torinoarticlespatial planningspatial consciousnessplanning systemsplanning policiesstructural reformUrban groups. The city. Urban sociologyHT101-395ENEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, Vol September, Iss 52 (2013)
institution DOAJ
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topic spatial planning
spatial consciousness
planning systems
planning policies
structural reform
Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
HT101-395
spellingShingle spatial planning
spatial consciousness
planning systems
planning policies
structural reform
Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
HT101-395
Daniel Galland
Stig Enemark
Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness?
description This paper argues that a planning system that allows its policies and practices to gradually lose spatial consciousness and spatial coordination capacities within and across different levels of planning administration is less likely to make national and regional plans and strategies matter or have a say in future spatial development processes. The reasoning behind this argument stems from the case of Denmark, where a structural reform that changed the country’s geographies of inter-governmental arrangements in 2007 significantly transformed the configuration and functioning of the national planning system. Originally designed to support the principle of equal development through spatial planning policies aimed at the promotion of equal access to public and private services across the national territory, the Danish planning policy framework has increasingly evolved towards expressing a lack of explicit spatial consciousness in its current plans and strategies. At the same time, the Danish planning system seems to reveal narrower measures of spatial coherence in terms of horizontal and vertical coordination and integration of sectors and policies within and across different levels of planning administration. Based on an analysis regarding the evolution of planning policies and an examination of the current governance landscape influencing planning practices at national and regional levels, the paper attempts to generate an understanding concerning how the underlying rationale and the institutional relations of Danish spatial planning have been reoriented over time.
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title Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness?
title_short Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness?
title_full Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness?
title_fullStr Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness?
title_full_unstemmed Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness?
title_sort impact of structural reforms on planning systems and policies: loss of spatial consciousness?
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