1st Edition

The Changing Institutional Landscape of Planning

Edited By Louis Albrechts, Jeremy Alden, Artur Da Rosa Pires Copyright 2001
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    This title was first published in 2001. Planning today has to deal with a completely different world from the one in which many of the basic ways of thought of the profession were founded. Many traditional planning approaches often seem less relevant when attention is increasingly being focused on sustainable development, deregulation and competitiveness in a global world. Focusing on the changes that are taking place in the realm of planning practice and spatial planning across Europe, this text examines the driving forces for institutional change. It brings together a team of leading planning academics with experience of planning practice and policies, from the UK, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Italy and Norway. Throughout the 12 chapters of the book, they examine and compare new approaches to planning across Europe at local, metropolitan, regional, national and international levels.

    1: In Search of New Approaches for Planning; 2: Complexity and Interdependency in a Kaleidoscopic Spatial Planning Landscape for Europe; 3: The European Spatial Development Perspective and the Changing Institutional Landscape of Planning; 4: Planning at a National Scale: A New Planning Framework for the UK; 5: From Traditional Land Use Planning to Strategic Spatial Planning: The Case of Flanders; 6: Regionalisation and Planning: Creating Institutions and Stakeholders in the English Regions; 7: The Ruhr in Germany: A Laboratory for Regional Governance; 8: New Tasks and New Forms for Comprehensive Planning in Italy; 9: Breaking the Ties with the Master Plan: Spatial Strategic Plans in Portugal; 10: Pitfalls in Communicative Planning: The Case of Landås Township Plan in Bergen, Norway; 11: Community Involvement in Spatial Planning: Economic Development in Merseyside; 12: Conclusions: Driving Forces for Institutional Change

    Biography

    Louis Albrechts, Jeremy Alden, Artur Da Rosa Pires