Making Strategic Spatial Plans: Innovation In Europe Umea University, Sweden Alain Motte Universite Aix-Marseille, France Barrie Needham University of Nymegen, the Netherlands.

314 Pages·1997·3.22 MB·English

by  Healey

Making Strategic Spatial Plans

Making Strategic Spatial Plans
INNOVATION IN EUROPE

Edited by
Patsy Healey
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Abdul Khakee
University of Umea
Alain Motte
University of Aix-Marseille
Barrie Needham
University of Nijmegen
© Patsy Healey, Abdul Khakee, Alain Motte,
Barrie Needham and contributors 1997
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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements vii
List of contributors ix

PART I

1 The revival of strategic spatial planning in Europe 3

Patsy Healey
2 An institutionalist approach to spatial planning 20

Patsy Healey

PART II

3 A plan of hope and glory An example of development planning in Denmark 38
after Maastricht
Ib Jørgensen, Finn Kjærsdam, Jan Nielsen
4 Building strategic urban planning in France The Lyon urban area 1981–93 57
experiments
Alain Motte
5 Images as institution builders Metropolitan planning in Madrid 75

Michael Neuman
6 Building new institutions for strategic planning Transforming Lisbon into the 92
Atlantic capital of Europe
Lia T.Vasconcelos & Arminda C.Reis
7 Plan-making in the Zürich region 111

Hellmut Ringli
8 Strategic development planning in western Norway Hordaland County and 129
the City of Bergen
Arild Holt-Jensen
9 Rhetoric and reality in British structure planning in Lancashire, 1993–5 146

Simin Davoudi, Patsy Healey, Angela Hull
10 A plan with a purpose The regional plan for the province of Friesland, 1994 164

Barrie Needham
11 Working in a democratic culture Structure planning in Marks Kommun 181

Abdul Khakee
12 Community to communication The Schema Strutturale per la provincia di 197
Grosseto, 1990—designing strategies
Alessandro Vignozzi

PART III

13 The institutional relations of plan-making 218

Alain Motte
14 Agenda-setting in European spatial planning 238

Abdul Khakee
15 Planning strategies and planning methods 251

Barrie Needham
16 Strategic plan-making and building institutional capacity 264

Patsy Healey, Abdul Khakee, Alain Motte, Barrie Needham

Index 278
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book has been the product of a collaboration not only between the various authors
whose work is in the book. It has also greatly benefited from the critical contributions of
others who attended the workshops, and in particular, Andreas Faludi, Luigi Mazza, Alex
Fubini, Pekka Virtanen, Hartmut Dieterich, Louis Albrechts, Tim Shaw and Dick
Williams. We would also like to thank those who acted as hosts to our workshops at the
University of Newcastle, the University of Nijmegen and the Catholic University of
Leuven, and NIPOS (Nijmeegs Instituut von Planning en Ongeveingsstudies) and the
Tyne and Wear Development Corporation for financial support. Our thanks to Bret
Fleming for help with graphics, to Richard Newton for proof-reading the text, to Jill
Connolly for helping with organizing the seminars and managing the to-and-from process
as we edited the chapters. Thanks also to Susan Smith and Yasmin Ibrahim for efficient
last-minute secretarial help. We have also appreciated the advice of Roger Jones, our
publisher.
Individual authors would also like to make specific acknowledgements. Michael
Neuman thanks the Carfax Publishing Company for permission to reproduce Figures 5.1
and 5.2 from European Planning Studies 4(3), pp. 302 and 305. Lia Vasconcelos and
Arminda Reis thank RISCO for supplying the urban fringe model figure used in Figure
6.4. (from Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (CML), 1993b).

CONTRIBUTORS
Simin Davoudi has been researching in various aspects of planning systems and urban
policy for many years. Her main interest is in policy processes in relation to strategic
planmaking, environmental sustainability and urban regeneration. Her publications
include: Rebuilding the city (co-editor; Spon, 1992), Managing cities (co-editor, John
Wiley, 1995) and several journal articles and book chapters on development plans and
urban regeneration. She is currently a lecturer in the Bartlett School of Planning,
University College London, 22 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0QB.
Patsy Healey has been researching in planning theory and planning practice for many
years. She is particularly interested in the relation between communicative approaches
in planning theory, the political economy of urban region dynamics and the relation
with the policy processes and substantive contents of spatial planning practices. She
has published extensively on these issues, including Local plans in British land use
planning (Pergamon 1983), Land use planning and the mediation of urban change
(with McNamara, Elson and Doak; Cambridge University Press, 1988), Managing
cities (with Cameron, Davoudi, Graham and Madani Pour as co-editors; John Wiley,
1995), Negotiating development (with Purdue and Ennis; Spon, London 1995), and
Collaborative planning: shaping places in fragmented societies (Macmillan 1997).
She is currently director of the Centre for Research in European Urban Environments
at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle NE1 7RU.
Arild Holt-Jensen received his MA in geography in 1963 on a regional study of the
mountain commune Rauland in Telemark, which was further elaborated to a high
mountain recreational plan. He received his doctorate in 1986 on a study of the effects
of comprehensive planning on settlement and population development in 17
municipalities in the Kristiansand area of Norway. He has published textbooks in
geography and has worked on environmental planning and management of national
parks and related reserves. He has actively participated in local politics for the Liberal
Party as member of Bergen City Council and chairman of Landaas Township Council.
He is currently Professor of Geography at the University of Bergen, with special
responsibility for the courses in local and regional planning, Department of
Geography, Breiviken 2, 5035 Bergen, Sandviken, Norway.
Angela Hull has been researching in various aspects of regulatory systems and
mechanisms over the last few years having spent the first part of her career as a
planning practitioner. She is particularly interested in the relation between government
intervention, urban region institutional capacity and spatial impacts. Her recent
published work includes articles and book chapters on strategic planning, institutional
relations, information diffusion in regulatory systems, and renewable energy policies.
She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Town and Country Planning at the
University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU.