The EU Compendium of Spatial Planning Systems and Policies

The EU Compendium of Spatial Planning Systems and Policies
Author: European Commission. Directorate-General for Regional Policy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Recoge: 1.Overview of planning systems - 2.Making and reviewing plans and policies - 3.Regulations and permits - 4.Agencies and mechanisms for development and conservation - 5.Overview of spacial palnning in practice - 6.Policies and issues.

Spatial Planning and the European Union

Spatial Planning and the European Union
Author: Eva Purkarthofer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2024-07-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1040089860

European Union policies are intertwined with all sectors of public administration and governance in the member states, including spatial, urban and regional planning. Legal regulations like the Natura 2000 Directives, funding programmes associated with EU Cohesion Policy or strategies such as the Territorial Agenda 2030 all leave their mark on planning – yet with considerably different effects in Europe’s cities and regions. This book serves as a guide to navigate the connection points between EU policies and spatial planning by introducing the logics of EU policymaking and European spatial planning, outlining the most important EU policies with relevance for spatial planning and presenting examples, from Austria and Finland, of how EU policies are applied in domestic contexts. By exploring the Europeanisation of spatial planning ‘from within’, the book acknowledges how differential ideas about what spatial planning is and what role the EU plays therein shape the actualised impacts of EU policies. By providing a comprehensive perspective on the relevance of the European Union for spatial planning, this book is ideal for students, academics and administrators who want to grasp how the EU shapes and affects planning practice in Europe’s cities and regions.

Towards a New Role for Spatial Planning

Towards a New Role for Spatial Planning
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2001-03-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9264189920

This volume is based on two international seminars oranised by the OECD and the National Land Agency, Japan which examines the emerging consensus concerning a new strategic mode for spatial policy.

Vienna

Vienna
Author: Yuri Kazepov
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000540448

This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social participation and the environment. Historically, European cities have been characterised by a strong association between social cohesion, quality of life, economic ambition and a robust State. Vienna is an excellent example for that. In more recent years, however, cities were pressured to change policy principles and mechanisms in the context of demographic shifts, post-industrial transformations and welfare recalibration which have led to worsened social conditions in many cities. Each chapter in this volume discusses Vienna’s responses to these pressures in key policy arenas, looking at outcomes from the context-specific local arrangements. Against a theoretical framework debating the European city as a model of inclusion and social justice, authors explore the local capacity to innovate urban policies and to address new social risks, while paying attention to potential trade-offs. The book questions and assesses the city’s resilience using time series and an institutional analysis of four key dimensions that characterise the European city model within the context of post-industrial transition: redistribution, recognition, representation and sustainability. It offers a multiscalar perspective of urban governance through labour, housing, participatory and environmental policies, bringing together different levels and public policy types. Vienna: Still a Just City? is aimed at academics, researchers and policy-makers in urban studies, including urban sociology, ecology, geography and welfare. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Why Vienna gets high marks

Why Vienna gets high marks
Author: Eugen Antalovsky
Publisher: European Investment Bank
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9286138741

This essay reviews the political circumstances and strategic orientations of Vienna's comprehensive urban development policy, and how the EIB's investments facilitated key projects and supported Vienna's process of urban modernisation. Urban development in Vienna took place in four cycles, which are characterised by distinctive internal and external conditions and opportunities. Each prompted different levels of EIB engagement.

Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning

Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning
Author: Anton Kreukels
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2005-08-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134496052

Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning explores the relationship between metropolitan decision-making and strategies to co-ordinate spatial policy. This relationship is examined across 20 cities of Europe and the similarities and differences analysed. Cities are having to formulate their urban policies in a very complex and turbulent environment. They are faced with numerous new pressures and problems and these often create contradictory conditions. The book provides a theoretical framework for exploring these issues and links this to a detailed investigation of each city. In the context of globalisation, cities in the last twenty years have experienced new patterns of activity and these usually transcend political boundaries. The management of these changes therefore requires an effort of co-ordination and different cities have found different approaches. However the institutional setting itself has not remained static. The nation states in Europe have handed over many responsibilities to the European Union while also increasing devolution to regions and cities. Government has therefore become a more complex multi-level activity. There has also been the move from government to governance. Many different public, quasi-public and private bodies are now involved in making decisions that affect urban development. Metropolitan governance is therefore also a complex multi-actor process. In these conditions of fragmented governance and the widening spatial networking of urban development, the issue of policy co-ordination become ever more important. The exploration of the 20 cities shows that many face similar difficulties while some also provide interesting examples of innovative practice. The book concludes that the way forward is to find strategies to link the different spheres of metropolitan action through 'organising connectivity'.