Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development

Abdelillah Hamdouch is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Head of the Spatial Planning & Environment Department at the Polytechnic School, University of Tours, France.Torill Nyseth is Professor of Community Planning at the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway.Christophe Demazière is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Spatial Planning & Environment Department of the Polytechnic School, University of Tours, France.Anniken Førde is Associate Professor of Community Planning at the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway.José Serrano is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Spatial Planning & Environment Department of the Polytechnic School, University of Tours, France.Nils Aarsæther is Professor of Community Planning at the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway.

• Introduction, (Christophe Demazière, Anniken Førde, Abdelillah Hamdouch, Torill Nyseth,José Serrano, Nils Aarsæther), Part I: Approaches to Planning and Local Development: Analytical Landmarks and Methodological Challenges, 1. Perspectives on Creative Planning and Local Development in SMSTs (Torill Nyseth, Abdelillah Hamdouch, Christophe Demazière, Nils Aarsaether, Anniken Forde, José Serrano), 2. Small and Medium-Sized Towns: A Research Subject at the Margins? (Christophe Demazière) , 3. Levers of Socio-Economic Development: Insights from European Small and Medium-Sized Towns (Abdelillah Hamdouch & Ksenija Banovac), 4. Governing Place Reinvention: The Quest for an Integrative Approach (Torill Nyseth & Anders Tønnesen), Part II: Can Place Transformation be Planned? Challenges to Creative Planning in SMST`s, 5. Creative Industries as a Base for Local Development: The Challenges of Planning for the Un-known (Anniken Førde & Britt Kramvig), 6. Innovative Actions for Local Development in Small and Medium-sized Towns: The Case of the Region Centre-Val de Loire in France (Christophe Demazière, Abdelillah Hamdouch & Ksenija Banovac), 7. Inter-Municipal Cooperation as a means of Creative Territorial Planning (Abdelillah Hamdouch & José Serrano), 8. Potential and Obstacles to Creative Planning in a Crisis Context: The Case of the City of Patras in Greece (Pavlos Delladetsima & J. Loukakis), 9. Planning for Site Conversion: The Fornebu Experiment (Nils Aarsæther & Halvard Vike), Part III: Social Innovation, Participatory Governance and Collective Learning as Levers of Creative Planning, 10. Envisioning the Appearance of New Urban Landscapes: Transformative City Dialogues in Nuuk (Kjerstin Uhre & Knut Eirik Dahl), 10. The Role of Social Cohesion Policies in the Local Development of SMSTs in France and Quebec (Abdelillah Hamdouch & Leïla Ghaffari), 12. A Reflexive, Critical and Committed Approach to Renewed Sustainable Planning in the Artic (Gisle Løken & Magdalena Haggärde), 13. Quality of Life and Attractiveness Sssues in SMSTs: Creative or Commonplace Policies? (Hélène Mainet & Jean-Charles Edouard), 14. Postscript: Pathways Towards a Critical and Comparative Approach to Creative Planning for Local Development (Nils Aarsaether, José Serrano, Anniken Forde, Christophe Demazière, Torill Nyseth, Abdelillah Hamdouch)