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Strategic Spatial Planning and Regional Governance in Europe See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233869882 Strategic Spatial Planning and Regional Governance in Europe Article in Journal of the American Planning Association · June 2003 DOI: 10.1080/01944360308976301 CITATIONS READS 310 4,632 3 authors, including: Louis Albrechts Patsy Healey KU Leuven Newcastle University 56 PUBLICATIONS 2,357 CITATIONS 143 PUBLICATIONS 11,407 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: SP2SP. Spatial planning to strategic projects View project SP2SP. Spatial planning to strategic projects View project All content following this page was uploaded by Louis Albrechts on 30 September 2015. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. Journal of the American Planning Association ISSN: 0194-4363 (Print) 1939-0130 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjpa20 Strategic Spatial Planning and Regional Governance in Europe Louis Albrechts , Patsy Healey & Klaus R. Kunzmann To cite this article: Louis Albrechts , Patsy Healey & Klaus R. Kunzmann (2003) Strategic Spatial Planning and Regional Governance in Europe, Journal of the American Planning Association, 69:2, 113-129, DOI: 10.1080/01944360308976301 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944360308976301 Published online: 13 Oct 2010. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 2065 View related articles Citing articles: 72 View citing articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rjpa20 Download by: [KU Leuven University Library] Date: 30 September 2015, At: 10:59 LONGER VIEW Strategic Spatial Planning and Regional Governance in Europe Louis Albrechts, Patsy Healey, and Klaus R. Kunzmann Barrie Maguire’s image of a woman stitching together the Irish landscape reflects the central question behind this Longer View: What will recent stra- tegic spatial planning efforts in Europe n this article, we discuss the recent experience of planning and the devel- give us? In the case of Northern Ire- opment of strategic spatial development frameworks for city regions in land, the quilt sewn from separate I Europe. We first explain the context and forces behind the revival of pieces of the landscape might repre- interest in this level of planning. We then describe three examples. We con- sent that state’s desire to establish clude by summarising the motivations behind the examples, drawing gen- cohesion while respecting diversity. Al- eral lessons. brechts, Healy, and Kunzmann show that there and elsewhere, spatial plan- ning efforts are stitching together new Rethinking Place, Territory, and Governance in regional patterns for many parts of an Expanding Europe Europe. During the 1980s in Europe, it was often said that strategic planning Maguire is a graduate of Notre Dame Downloaded by [KU Leuven University Library] at 10:59 30 September 2015 was in limbo (Healey et al., 1997; Salet & Faludi, 2000). Instead, urban and University and comes from a family of artists. He has worked as a creative regional planning practices focused on projects—especially for the revival director at Hallmark Cards, a book of rundown parts of cities and regions—and on land use regulation. But designer and illustrator, and a news- by the end of the century, new efforts were underway in many parts of paper editorial illustrator. Since visit- Europe to produce strategies for cities, subregions, and regions (Salet & ing Ireland in 1998, he has focused on Faludi, 2000). Often these efforts involve the construction of new institu- painting. He lives in Pennsylvania, and tional arenas within structures of government that are themselves chang- more of his work can be seen on his ing. The motivations for these new efforts are varied, but the objectives have family’s Web site, www.maguiregallery. typically been to articulate a more coherent spatial logic for land use regu- com. lation, resource protection, and investments in regeneration and infra- This article examines recent experi- structure. Strategic frameworks and visions for territorial development, with ences in Europe in the preparation and an emphasis on place qualities and the spatial impacts and integration of use of strategic spatial frameworks to investments, complement and provide a context for specific development guide territorial development in city projects. APA Journal N Spring 2003 N Vol. 69, No. 2 113 LOUIS ALBRECHTS, PATSY HEALEY, AND KLAUS R. KUNZMANN regions. It discusses the recent revival These efforts revive a well-developed capacity in many parts of Europe of interest in such strategic planning for government-led strategic interventions at the urban and regional level. and the driving forces that create the Such efforts build on Europe’s “strong state” traditions, particularly in the momentum for it. We examine three welfare states of the North West, as well as enduring political-cultural asso- cases recognised as in the forefront of ciations with city and region. This capacity is now being used in new ways to this revival: the 1996 Spatial Strategy reposition cities and regions in the expanding economic and political land- for the Hanover City Region, the 1997 Spatial Structure Plan for Flanders, scape of the European Union (EU) and of globalising economic relations. and the 2001 Northern Ireland Re- These strategic efforts are also part of a movement to recompose governance gional Development Strategy. Each is relations, to break away from the functional/sectoral organisation typical described in terms of context and mo- of many national and regional/local governments, and to widen governance tivations, policy approaches and con- relations to incorporate in new ways significant economic and local com- cepts, institutional arenas, impacts, munity stakeholders. They also reflect a recognition of the eroding influ- and outcomes. The article concludes ence of national party politics in local political organisation and respond to with general lessons from these cases reductions in national-level finance for local government. and the European experience generally The focus on the spatial relations of territories holds the promise of a for the enterprise of strategic spatial more effective way of integrating economic, environmental, cultural, and so- planning. cial policy agendas as these affect localities. It also carries a potential for a Albrechts is a professor of planning at the “rescaling” of issue agendas down from the national or state level and up from University of Leuven, Belgium. He special- the municipal level. This process may involve strengthening a scale at the level ises in the theory and practice of strategic of broad regions, similar to U.S. and German states. Or it may mean strength- planning and diversity in planning. Healey ening a subregional development focus, the level of land and labour markets. is a professor of planning at the University A territorial focus also provides a promising basis for encouraging levels of of Newcastle, UK. She specialises in plan- ning theory and in the theory and practice government to work together and in partnership with actors in diverse posi- of planning systems in the context of tions in the economy and civil society (Fürst, 2001; Kunzmann, 2001b). changing governance relations and new There are several driving forces behind these efforts (see Figure 1). Some economic, sociocultural, and environmen- relate to dominant policy agendas in the EU and European nation states. tal challenges. Kunzmann is the Jean Mon- The influence of the “competitiveness” agenda has been widespread in Eu- net Professor of European Spatial Planning at the School of Planning, University of rope, underpinning much investment in infrastructure and urban redevel- Dortmund and a professor of urban and opment. The focus on city and region relates to well-established arguments regional planning at the Technical Univer- about the importance of place qualities in economic development. In Eu- sity of Berlin. His work centres around cre- rope, the environmental agenda is also strong, linked in part to the environ- ative approaches to urban and regional re- mental movement’s emphasis on sustainable resource use and in part to cit- structuring and planning in city regions. izen movements concerned with the quality of life in places. This focus on Journal of the American Planning Association, place is linked in turn to a political-cultural momentum to reassert the im- Vol. 69, No. 2, Spring 2003. © American portance of regional/local identity and image in the face of European inte- Planning Association, Chicago, IL. gration and globalisation. These motivations are complemented by the agenda of government re- organisation mentioned above. Forms of multilevel governance have a long history in Europe. Contemporary efforts at rescaling involve a double move- Downloaded by [KU Leuven University Library] at 10:59 30 September 2015 ment: to reduce hierarchies of levels while building stronger institutional capacity at regional and subregional levels, sometimes involving transna- tional cooperation. This is associated with the search for new concepts to drive policy integration (also called joined-up policy). Sustainable development has become a widely used term expressing the concept of potential for cre- ating a positive-sum strategy combining economic, environmental, and so- cial objectives in their spatial manifestation. Territorial
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