Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness?
This paper argues that a planning system that allows its policies and practices to gradually lose spatial consciousness and spatial coordination capacities within and across different levels of planning administration is less likely to make national and regional plans and strategies matter or have a...
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| description | This paper argues that a planning system that allows its policies and practices to gradually lose spatial consciousness and spatial coordination capacities within and across different levels of planning administration is less likely to make national and regional plans and strategies matter or have a say in future spatial development processes. The reasoning behind this argument stems from the case of Denmark, where a structural reform that changed the country’s geographies of intergovernmental arrangements in 2007 significantly transformed the configuration and functioning of the national planning system. Originally designed to support the principle of equal development through spatial planning policies aimed at the promotion of equal access to public and private services across the national territory, the Danish planning policy framework has increasingly evolved towards expressing a lack of explicit spatial consciousness in its current plans and strategies. At the same time, the Danish planning system seems to reveal narrower measures of spatial coherence in terms of horizontal and vertical coordination and integration of sectors and policies within and across different levels of planning administration. Based on an analysis regarding the evolution of planning policies and an examination of the current governance landscape influencing planning practices at national and regional levels, the paper attempts to generate an understanding concerning how the underlying rationale and the institutional relations of Danish spatial planning have been reoriented over time. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-934a1a3c164e444c828f97bdc9f2fa3c2023-04-14T09:46:55ZengPolitecnico di TorinoEuropean Journal of Spatial Development1650-95442013-09-0111312310.5281/zenodo.5139798208Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness?Daniel Galland0Stig Enemark1Aalborg University, DK-9000, AalborgAalborg University, DK-9000, AalborgThis paper argues that a planning system that allows its policies and practices to gradually lose spatial consciousness and spatial coordination capacities within and across different levels of planning administration is less likely to make national and regional plans and strategies matter or have a say in future spatial development processes. The reasoning behind this argument stems from the case of Denmark, where a structural reform that changed the country’s geographies of intergovernmental arrangements in 2007 significantly transformed the configuration and functioning of the national planning system. Originally designed to support the principle of equal development through spatial planning policies aimed at the promotion of equal access to public and private services across the national territory, the Danish planning policy framework has increasingly evolved towards expressing a lack of explicit spatial consciousness in its current plans and strategies. At the same time, the Danish planning system seems to reveal narrower measures of spatial coherence in terms of horizontal and vertical coordination and integration of sectors and policies within and across different levels of planning administration. Based on an analysis regarding the evolution of planning policies and an examination of the current governance landscape influencing planning practices at national and regional levels, the paper attempts to generate an understanding concerning how the underlying rationale and the institutional relations of Danish spatial planning have been reoriented over time.https://journals.polito.it/index.php/EJSD/article/view/208spatial planningspatial consciousnessplanning systemplanning policiesstructural reform |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Galland Stig Enemark Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness? European Journal of Spatial Development spatial planning spatial consciousness planning system planning policies structural reform |
| title | Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness? |
| title_full | Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness? |
| title_fullStr | Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness? |
| title_short | Impact of Structural Reforms on Planning Systems and Policies: Loss of Spatial Consciousness? |
| title_sort | impact of structural reforms on planning systems and policies loss of spatial consciousness |
| topic | spatial planning spatial consciousness planning system planning policies structural reform |
| url | https://journals.polito.it/index.php/EJSD/article/view/208 |
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