The Institutionalisation of European Spatial Planning (Sustainable Urban Areas)

Title page......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Prologue......Page 14
Introduction......Page 20
The pillars of European spatial planning......Page 21
The Territorial Agenda......Page 22
Spatial planning......Page 25
Spatial and territorial......Page 26
Planning, policy, development, cohesion......Page 27
What is the EU?......Page 28
Theorising the process of European integration......Page 29
Current issues......Page 30
The concept of institution......Page 31
Processes of institutional change......Page 32
A model of institutional change......Page 33
Self-organisation: concepts, principles and community......Page 35
External enforcement: discourse analysis......Page 36
Evaluating European spatial planning......Page 37
Europeanisation and institutionalisation......Page 38
Plan of the book......Page 39
References......Page 40
European organisations and the institutionalisation of a territorial dimension in EU policy......Page 46
Introduction......Page 47
The EU: a construct built on treaties......Page 48
The search for relevant Treaty Articles......Page 50
The EU decision-making process......Page 52
The European Commission......Page 53
The Council of Ministers and the Informal Ministerial Meetings on Spatial Planning and Development......Page 54
The European Parliament......Page 55
The Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee......Page 56
What is European spatial planning about?......Page 57
The legitimacy of European spatial planning......Page 58
Lobbying for spatial planning?......Page 59
Concluding remarks......Page 61
References......Page 63
Polycentric development: What is behind it?......Page 68
Policy theory: A joint construct......Page 70
Polycentricity: the core concept in the ESDP......Page 72
Combining interests......Page 75
Polycentric development: A bridging concept......Page 84
Polycentric development being taken seriously......Page 85
Conclusion......Page 90
References......Page 91
Visions on territorial cohesion......Page 96
The debate in the Member States......Page 97
The Treaty debate......Page 98
Towards implementing territorial cohesion......Page 99
Territorial capital......Page 100
ESPON: towards territorial indicators......Page 101
Territoriality......Page 103
Experiences with spatial visioning......Page 104
Different sorts of spatial visions......Page 105
Concluding remarks......Page 106
References......Page 107
Territorial cohesion: The underlying discourses......Page 110
A discourse analytical approach to territorial cohesion......Page 112
Storylines feeding into Territorial Cohesion......Page 113
Europe in Balance......Page 114
Coherent European policy......Page 118
Competitive Europe......Page 120
Green and Clean Europe......Page 123
Storylines compared......Page 126
References......Page 129
The emerging EU Territorial cohesion agenda: The ball in the court of the member states......Page 136
Positioning territorial cohesion......Page 137
The Commission’s Territorial Cohesion Agenda......Page 139
The member states initiative: The ‘Territorial Agenda Process’......Page 142
The scoping document......Page 143
The road to Germany (2007)......Page 144
Outlook......Page 145
References......Page 146
Mixed messages: How the ESDP’s concepts have been applied in INTERREG IIIB programmes, priorities and projects......Page 150
Introduction......Page 151
Application: a matter of performance......Page 153
Application of the ESDP in INTERREG III Guidelines......Page 156
Developing the programme in northwest Europe......Page 157
The allocation of funding as a performance indicator......Page 159
Polycentric spatial development in programmes......Page 160
Urban-rural relationships in programmes......Page 162
Selecting projects in northwest Europe......Page 164
The role of the ESDP in projects in general......Page 165
Polycentric spatial development in projects......Page 166
Urban-rural relationships in projects......Page 167
Conclusions......Page 168
References......Page 170
Episodes of Europeanisation of Dutch national spatial planning......Page 174
Introduction......Page 175
The concept of Europeanisation......Page 177
1950-1997: The international orientation of Dutch National Spatial Planning......Page 179
The Fifth National Spatial Planning Report......Page 183
Towards the National Spatial Strategy: De-Europeanisation......Page 187
2005-Ongoing: The spatial impact of EU policies......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 192
References......Page 193
Institutionalising European spatial planning......Page 198
Actors and their roles......Page 199
The European planning community......Page 200
Discourse coalitions......Page 201
The European planning discourse......Page 202
Conceptualising the EU territory......Page 203
Desired spatial development......Page 204
Planning principles......Page 205
Evidence-based planning......Page 206
Self-organisation......Page 207
Embeddedness in EU and member state politics......Page 208
Résumé......Page 209
The Europeanisation of planning......Page 210
Spatialising EU policies......Page 211
Unexpected help?......Page 212
A roadmap......Page 213
The Territorial Agenda way......Page 214
A grass-roots approach......Page 215
Creating a shock?......Page 216
Stamina rewarded?......Page 217
References......Page 218
Epilogue......Page 224
Samenvatting......Page 228
Curriculum Vitae......Page 238