Table Of ContentThe debate on European spatial planning spans over two decades, but has
gained currency and legitimacy with the inclusion of ‘territorial cohesion’
as an objective of the European Union in the Lisbon Treaty. Although no
consensus exists on the specific problems territorial cohesion policy should
address, it recognizes the diversity of European regions and their particular
development potentials. Moreover, it has the clear ambition, like spatial
planning and regional policy, of being evidence-based. This raises the
crucial question: what kind of knowledge is needed for this emerging policy
area, how is it being (re)produced and by whom?
This book answers the call by chronicling how various ‘epistemic com-
munities’ are developing in the field of European spatial planning in central
and east European (CEE) countries and what this means for the future
spatial development agenda of the Union. In so doing, the book treats some
very interesting and often neglected subject matter, since the literature in
this area has focused almost exclusively on north-west Europe. Despite their
modest role in setting the spatial planning/territorial cohesion agenda, CEE
countries are in some ways more receptive to European spatial planning/
territorial cohesion policy, and have in recent years become more active in
the discussions on its development, than some of the member states pioneer-
ing this policy area. Finally, as much of the literature on EU spatial planning
is more descriptive than explanatory, the critical reflection and theoretical
rigour of this book is a very welcome addition to this growing body of
literature.
Dr. David Evers, Senior researcher at the Netherlands Environmental
Assessment Agency (Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving)
Territorial Development, Cohesion
and Spatial Planning
This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by spatial planning in Europe
post enlargement, assessing these challenges through a knowledge perspective on the
study of processess contributing to policy stability and change. Focusing on the experi-
ences in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the different chapters reflect on the diversity
of approaches to spatial planning and the politics of policy formation and multi-level gov-
ernance operations – from local to transnational agendas.
It promotes increased awareness and understanding of the links between the ‘hard’ regu-
latory spaces of planning systems and the ‘soft’ spaces of territorial governance beyond the
geographical and professional boundaries of these systems. And it highlights the potential
for both conflict and learning among expert and non-expert actor communities in policy
development processess, and their contribution as both institutionally enabling and con-
straining factors. In this regard, the main purpose of the book sets out to explore how, and
to what extent knowledge resources (data, ideas and arguments) are channeled by these
communities through various knowledge arenas where they are tested, debated and vali-
dated in efforts to shape or frame spatial policy. The recently acquired CEE dimension to
EU territorial governance provides a unique opportunity to examine the evolution of this
agent interactivity, whilst offering a conceptualization of the role of knowledge in the policy
process as a useful departure point into understanding the complex adaptive processes
inherent in territorial development, cohesion and spatial planning.
The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, practitioners, project managers
and policy advisors active in the fields of European territorial development and spatial
planning, particularly concerning issues of territorial cohesion, development, EU regional
and sectoral policies, EU enlargement and the transition of former Soviet and Socialist
countries, especially in light of the widespread participation throughout Europe of these
groups in EU funded projects and research. It will be most relevant to under and post-
graduate students studying regional development and European spatial planning.
Neil Adams is Senior Lecturer at London Southbank University, Department of Urban,
Environmental and Leisure Studies. Giancarlo Cotella is Research Fellow at Politecnico
di Torino, Eupolis, Dipartimento Interateneo Territorio (DITER). Richard Nunes is
Senior Lecturer in Spatial Planning and Governance, Department of Planning at Oxford
Brookes University.
Regions and cities
Series editors:
Ron Martin
University of Cambridge, UK
Gernot Grabher
University of Bonn, Germany
Maryann Feldman
University of Georgia, USA
Gillian Bristow
University of Cardiff, UK
Regions and Cities is an international, interdisciplinary series that provides
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seeks to combine theoretical and empirical insights with constructive policy
debate and critically engages with formative processes and policies in regional
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1 Beyond Green Belts 6 The Regional Imperative
Managing urban growth in the Regional planning and governance
21st century in Britain, Europe and the United
Edited by John Herrington States
Urlan A. Wannop
2 Retreat from the Regions
Corporate change and the closure
7 The Determinants of Small Firm
of factories
Growth
Stephen Fothergill and Nigel Guy
An inter- regional study in the
3 Regional Development in the United Kingdom 1986–90
1990s Richard Barkham,
The British Isles in transition Graham Gudgin, Mark Hart and
Edited by Ron Martin and Eric Hanvey
Peter Townroe
8 The Regional Dimension of
4 Spatial Policy in a Divided
Transformation in Central
Nation (April 1993)
Europe
Edited by Richard T. Harrison and
Gorzelak Grzegorz
Mark Hart
5 An Enlarged Europe 9 Union Retreat and the Regions
Regions in competition? The shrinking landscape of
Edited by Louis Albrechts, organised labour
Sally Hardy, Mark Hart and Ron Martin, Peter Sunley and
Anastasios Katos Jane Wills
10 Regional Development 18 Metropolitan Planning in
Strategies Britain
A European perspective A comparative study
Edited by Jeremy Alden and Edited by Peter Roberts,
Philip Boland Kevin Thomas and
Gwyndaf Williams
11 British Regionalism and
Devolution 19 Social Exclusion in European
The challenges of state reform and Cities
European integration Processes, experiences and
Edited by Jonathan Bradbury and responses
John Mawson Edited by Judith Allen,
Goran Cars and Ali Madanipour
12 Innovation Networks and
Learning Regions?
20 Regional Development Agencies
James Simmie
in Europe
Edited by Charlotte Damborg,
13 Regional Policy in Europe
Mike Danson and Henrik Halkier
S. S. Artobolevskiy
21 Community Economic
14 New Institutional Spaces
Development
TECs and the remaking of
Edited by Graham Haughton
economic governance
Edited by Martin Jones and
22 Foreign Direct Investment and
Jamie Peck
the Global Economy
Corporate and institutional
15 The Coherence of EU Regional
dynamics of global-l ocalisation
Policy
Edited by Jeremy Alden and
Contrasting perspectives on the
Nicholas F. Phelps
structural funds
Edited by John Bachtler and
Ivan Turok 23 Restructuring Industry and
Territory
16 Multinationals and European The experience of Europe’s
Integration regions
Trade, investment and regional Edited by Anna Giunta,
development Arnoud Lagendijk and Andy Pike
Edited by Nicholas A. Phelps
24 Out of the Ashes?
17 Unemployment and Social The social impact of industrial
Exclusion contraction and regeneration on
Landscapes of labour inequality Britain’s mining communities
and social exclusion Chas Critcher, Bella Dicks,
Edited by Sally Hardy, David Parry and
Paul Lawless and Ron Martin David Waddington
25 Regional Innovation 33 Geographies of the New
Strategies Economy
The challenge for less-f avoured Critical reflections
regions Edited by Peter W. Daniels,
Edited by Kevin Morgan and Andrew Leyshon,
Claire Nauwelaers Michael J. Bradshaw and
Jonathan Beaverstock
26 Geographies of Labour Market
Inequality 34 European Cohesion Policy
Edited by Ron Martin and Willem Molle
Philip S. Morrison
35 Creative Regions
27 Sustainable Cities Technology, culture and
Graham Haughton and knowledge entrepreneurship
Colin Hunter Edited by Philip Cooke and
Dafna Schwartz
28 Regions, Spatial Strategies and
Sustainable Development 36 Devolution, Regionalism and
David Counsell and Regional Development
Graham Haughton The UK experience
Edited by Jonathan Bradbury
29 Clusters and Regional
Development 37 Intelligent Cities and
Critical reflections and Globalisation of Innovation
explorations Networks
Edited by Asheim Bjorn, Nicos Komninos
Philip Cooke and Ron Martin
38 Whither regional studies?
30 Regional Competitiveness Edited by Andy Pike
Edited by Ron Martin,
Michael Kitson and 39 Business Networks in Clusters
Peter Tyler and Industrial Districts
The governance of the global
31 Regional Development in the value chain
Knowledge Economy Edited by Fiorenza Belussi and
Edited by Philip Cooke and Alessia Sammarra
Andrea Piccaluga
40 China and Europe
32 The Rise of the English The implications of the rise of
Regions? China for European space
Edited by Irene Hardill, Edited by Klaus R. Kunzmann,
Paul Benneworth, Mark Baker Willy A. Schmid and
and Leslie Budd Martina Koll-S chretzenmayr
41 Globalizing Regional 44 The Futures of the City Region
Development in East Asia Edited by Angela Hull and
Production networks, clusters, and Michael Neuman
entrepreneurship
Edited by Henry Wai-c hung Yeung 45 Migration in the 21st Century
Rights, outcomes, and policy
42 Manufacturing in the New Kim Korinek and
Urban Economy Thomas Maloney
Willem van Winden,
Leo van den Berg, Luis Carvalho 46 Territorial Development,
and Erwin van Tuiji Cohesion and Spatial Planning
Knowledge and policy
43 The Impacts of Automotive development in an enlarged EU
Plant Closures Edited by Neil Adams,
A tale of two cities Giancarlo Cotella and
Edited by Andrew Beer and Richard Nunes
Holli Evans
Territorial Development,
Cohesion and Spatial
Planning
Knowledge and policy development
in an enlarged EU
Edited by Neil Adams,
Giancarlo Cotella and Richard Nunes
