Print Email Facebook Twitter Reinventing spatial planning in a borderless Europe: Emergent themes Title Reinventing spatial planning in a borderless Europe: Emergent themes Author Waterhout, B. Faludi, A.K.F. Stead, D. Zonneveld, W. Milder, J. Nadin, V. Faculty OTB Research Institute Department Urban and Regional Development Date 2009-12-31 Abstract This paper is a follow-up to the Chicago Round Table ‘Emergent Research Themes on European Territorial Governance’ in 2008 questioning the view of EU territory as the sum of mutually exclusive territories under nation-state control and pointing out the existence of overlapping jurisdictions. Themes were: (1) the relationship between the EU and its members; (2) what space and territory means under Europeanisation; and (3) the role of spatial planning wedded to the idea of an integrated vision. This paper points out that rescaling and the emergence of ‘soft’ spaces beyond jurisdictional boundaries are general phenomena (Allmendinger, Haughton 2009), and so are the responses in terms of borderless strategic planning. This gives the concept of multi-level governance, originally developed in the EU context, more general relevance. It also relates to poststructuralist views of spatiality and territorialisation as seen from a relational perspective putting emphasis on fluidity, reflexivity, connectivity, multiplicity and polyvocality as documented by Davoudi and Strange (2009). This comes down to rethinking the role of strategic, as against statutory spatial planning, drawing on examples from EU (where it goes under the flag of territorial cohesion policy) and from various member states. So the paper comes in three parts: 1) Relational space and place and the search for meaningful spatial concepts, 2) Multi-level governance: the question of scale, 3) Strategic spatial planning. The conclusions give directions for future research. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bd32c582-e0a7-4725-883a-52e50a13f0fc Publisher AESOP Source 23rd Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 'Why can't the future be more like the past', 15-18 July 2009, Liverpool, UK - Best Practices and Policy Transfer in Spatial Planning Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2009 The Author(s) Files PDF 242495.pdf 221.93 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bd32c582-e0a7-4725-883a-52e50a13f0fc/datastream/OBJ/view