Spatial Planning Systems in Europe

Edited by Vincent Nadin, Emeritus Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy, Department of Urbanism, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, Giancarlo Cotella, Professor of Spatial Planning, Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Italy and Peter Schmitt, Professor of Human Geography with focus on Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden

• Contents:PART I THE RATIONALE BEHIND COMPARATIVEPLANNING RESEARCH1 Spatial planning systems: a European perspective 2Vincent Nadin, Giancarlo Cotella and Peter Schmitt2 Cross-national comparison of spatial planning systems:a review of experience in Europe 28Vincent Nadin, Giancarlo Cotella and Peter SchmittPART II SPATIAL PLANNING SYSTEMS IN EUROPE:KEY COMPONENTS AND CHANGE3 The meaning of spatial planning in the law of European countries 65Kasia Piskorek and Vincent Nadin4 The multi-level nature of spatial planning and territorialgovernance 89Wil Zonneveld and Dominic Stead5 On the diversity of spatial planning instruments across Europe 110Lukas Smas and Peter Schmitt6 On the relation between spatial planning and sectoralpolicy fields in Europe 128Peter Schmitt and Lukas Smas7 Reform of European spatial planning systems: integration,adaptation and participation 151Vincent Nadin, Ana María Fernández-Maldonado, MarcinDąbrowski and Dominic SteadPART III THE EUROPEANISATION OF TERRITORIALGOVERNANCE: DYNAMICS AND TRAJECTORIES8 European territorial governance and its influence onspatial planning systems 176Giancarlo Cotella and Umberto Janin Rivolin9 European territorial governance in practice: on therelationship between cohesion policy and spatial planningat the local and regional level 200Tomasz Komornicki, Barbara Szejgiec-Kolenda, MariaBednarek-Szczepańska, Bożena Deg—rska, PrzemysławŚleszyński and Katarzyna Goch10 Potential future enlargement: spatial planning in theWestern Balkans 218Giancarlo Cotella, Zorica Nedović-Budić, Erblin Berishaand Nataša Čolić11 Relearn policy learning! Spatial planning in times of disruption 248Kai Böhme and Christian Lüer12 The classification of spatial planning in Europe: addedvalue and challenges 268Vincent Nadin, Giancarlo Cotella and Peter Schmitt

‘Incisive, insightful, and indisputably the most current and comprehensive treatise on spatial planning on the European continent. Written by a team of Europe’s leading planning scholars, the book does much more than characterize and contrast some 250 planning instruments and 31 planning structures in the European Union, but brings clarity to the nuanced concepts of territorial cohesion, balanced development, subsidiarity and indeed the distinctive meaning of the term spatial planning itself. In doing so it provides a conceptual foundation for assessing whether the European Union is progressing towards a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous European continent. The book is a must-read for students of planning systems all over the globe and especially for those who seek to understand, or strive to meet, the spatial complexities of the European experiment.’