Conveners
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Learning and agency
- Mustafa Kemal Bayฤฑrbaฤ (Middle East Technical University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Learning and institutions
- Raine Mantysalo (Aalto University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Climate governance
- Eva Purkarthofer (Aalto University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Transnational and cross-border planning
- Simin Yan (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University & Institute of Urban Development, Kassel University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Metropolitan and regional planning
- Eva Purkarthofer (Aalto University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Land governance and plannings systems
- Donato Casavola
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Territorial governance and soft planning
- Dominic Stead (Aalto University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Regeneration
- Mustafa Kemal Bayฤฑrbaฤ (Middle East Technical University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Urban development
- Przemysลaw Ciesiรณลka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
The question of how policy learning affects the localization of globally circulating policies has been central to our understanding of urban policy mobility. Within the policy mobilities literature, scholars from various disciplines, ranging from anthropology to geography and sociology to urban planning, have captured the interconnected urban processes and outcomes of global policy...
The transnational flow of planning knowledge has gradually become a research hotspot since the late 20th century against the trends of the globalization of planning and EU integration. Various interdisciplinary terms have been used to describe this phenomenon, such as "cross-national learning" and "policy mobilization" in politics study, and "knowledge flow" in management study. Some findings...
Crises and conflicts at different spatial scales have some planetary consequences. Interventions on commons spaces (state or private sector) have increased with the acceleration of privatization policies in 2008, and debates on the commons theory have re-entered the agenda. The struggles on the commons offer a new perspective of space and a new ontology of politicization in the creation of...
Wetlands are vital ecosystems, supporting 40% of global biodiversity while providing essential services such as flood regulation, carbon storage, and water purification. Despite their significance, wetlands rank among the most endangered habitats worldwide. Over the past 50 years, more than 35% have been lost due to urbanization, agricultural intensification, and pollution. In Europe, nearly...
In the face of pressing social and environmental challenges, experimental interventions โ such as real-world laboratories, urban living labs, niche experiments and demonstration projects โ are increasingly being recognised as important drivers of transformative urban change. In particular, experiments with co-creative governance are expected to trigger learning processes that challenge...
In the context of planning, sustainable development is a ubiquitous yet vague goal which can be pursued through a broad range of policies and policy mixes (Griggs et al., 2017; Gunder & Hillier, 2009). Neither of these policies are unavoidable or self-evident. Rather, they represent conscious or unconscious choices, determined by different knowledges, path dependencies, institutional...
With cities facing complex and systemic challenges, city-to-city (C2C) collaborations are increasingly recognised as an effective mechanism for municipal capacity building and transfer of knowledge and practices (Moodley, 2020). C2C exchanges have become a widely occurring phenomenon facilitated by city networks, funding programmes, and projects. It is positioned as a form of peer learning โ...
The contribution addresses questions of institutional learning within planning policies, proposing Social Innovation (SI) as a conceptual companion to investigate the region of Piedmont in Northern Italy. The term is extensively used and extremely hyped (Vigar et al., 2020). Yet, the project urges to examine the socio and spatial distribution of emerging inequalities and disadvantage...
In recent decades, an increasing number of cities worldwide have incorporated tactical urbanism into their urban planning strategies challenging traditional governance schemes and well-established planning approaches.
Some local administrations have developed structured tactical urban planning programs, defining criteria and priorities for implementing tactical experiments through a...
Reinventing Cities (RC) is a planning and design competition organized by the C40, a global city network of knowledge exchange and policy support for climate adaptation. RC is one of the network's operational tools, through which cities sell sites deemed under-utilized, so that projects tackling C40โs ten climate challenges can emerge. These projects must be led by interdisciplinary consortia,...
The article builds on two generations of Area Based Initiatives (ABIs) in Trondheim from 2013, that are being implemented in neighborhoods where the Municipality has identified quality of life challenges as well as urban physical degradation. The first program of this kind was implemented in the twin-neighborhoods of Saupstad-Kolstad from 2013 โ 2021 and with three new ABIs ongoing in the...
Spatial planning is a complex process deeply rooted in institutional contexts, playing a pivotal role in facilitating societal transitions towards sustainability. The governance structures shaping planning are influenced by a network of institutions, regulations, and procedures, which determine the decision-making processes around land-use and spatial configurations. Planning institutions are...
The world becomes urban, the majority of people live in cities, and we speak of an โurban ageโ. Planning as transformative action, especially towards and in a future post-growth society, involves motivating and engaging urban imaginaries. While some of them remain hidden in urban theory and associated role perceptions of planners and policymakers, so do we see imaginaries driving cities to...
In Finland, the established institutional frameworks and practices of spatial governance have generated a fairly stable regional order of core-periphery relations. Now this order is being challenged by the green transition and associated new technologies and market opportunities. Areas formerly peripheral have emerged as new centres of attention for green investments. What are the...
Infrastructure networks face significant challenges due to climate change (Tavasszy et al., 2016). Road networks, in particular, are vulnerable to extreme weather events, potentially leading to disruptions such as flooding or subsidence, especially when multiple climate drivers interact and amplify each other (KNMI, 2023). Despite road infrastructure being recognized as critical infrastructure...
Purpose:
This presentation presents a protocol, ideas and framework to advance knowledge and research about how built and social infrastructure has co-benefits for climate change and health equity. The focus is to identify the systemic conditions that support best practice governance behind planning and delivery of climate adaptive infrastructure to enable equity....
Achieving sustainable urban development is a critical pathway for advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Klopp and Petretta, 2017), and the implementation of effective and sustainable policies is essential to achieving this objective (Lowe et al., 2022). In this context, China has launched a series of the Urban Green Action (UGA) plans, such as the Eco-Garden City, the National...
This paper examines governance structures and institutional learning in urban transformation processes for climate change adaptation, focusing on Bolognaโs experience within the European Urban Initiative. This program has funded 22 innovative projects across European cities, and Bolognaโs TALEA is currently in the early stages of its journey, laying the foundation for future physical and...
Planning cities and communities is a rather complex matter, encompassing different dimensions and aspects (urban, transport, environmental, etc.). The traditional approaches dealt with these aspects in isolation, thus ignoring interdisciplinary effects and interactions. In contrast, recent approaches prioritise integrated solutions that holistically deal with urban space. To that end, there is...
Spatial planning, understood as โmeasures [taken] to develop models of a desirable, ideal state of the space and to create the conditions for its realizationโ (Turowski, 2005, p. 894) traditionally stops at the national border, its scope of action and the competences of spatial planners are legally bound to a nation state and its planning system. However, more and more cross-border functional...
Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is an essential tool for ensuring sustainability and effective governance in coastal areas, particularly in regions facing high anthropogenic pressure and environmental vulnerabilities and uncertainties such as the Adriatic-Ionian Region. However, the implementation of its principles and recommendations still shows great difficulties.
This study...
Border regions, often characterized by unique socio-economic dynamics and shared governance challenges, require robust data management systems to foster cross-border collaboration and sustainable development. This research investigates the purpose and implementation of data management practices in border regions of different countries, focusing on their potential to address cross-border...
Border areas exhibit unique characteristics in the formation of cooperative relationships, influenced by the interplay of international and national conditions at central, regional, and local levels. Additionally, the existence of the border as a barrier in many dimensions, including spatial, economic, socio-cultural, plays a very strong role. Under these conditions, the initiation and...
The European Union has witnessed a significant evolution in cross-border cooperation governance in recent years, encompassing various institutional mechanisms and arrangements. Interreg programs, Macroregional strategies, the b-solutions project, and more complex institutional cooperation structures such as Euroregions and European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) demonstrate that...
With the rollout of China's national strategy promoting metropolitan area integration, a plethora of urban planning practices spanning administrative boundaries are flourishing across the country, sparking considerable academic interest in a novel type of intercity adjacent regional unitโwhich we designate as "cross-border urban cooperation zones." The main contribution of this paper lies in...
With enhanced inter-city connectivity and extended urbanization, cities were expanding beyond their traditional city limits to become global city-regions through metropolisation (Scott, 2001). It has led to the bursting open of city-region boundaries, where cities and city-regions in proximity merge into vast, complex, and often cross-border territories (Brenner, 2019). These processes pose...
Border regions often face particular challenges, especially with regard to governance structures, institutional framework conditions and interregional cooperation. These problems concern both international borders, as addressed in the context of EU initiatives such as INTERREG, and intra-national borders, for example between federal states. While national borders have long been addressed in...
The Metropolitan Commitment 2030 is a strategic framework led by the Metropolitan Strategic Plan of Barcelona (PEMB) which aims to create a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient metropolitan region by 2030, aligning with global objectives such as the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At its core, the Commitment integrates a mission-oriented approach, which focuses on...
Reducing land take is indispensable for climate protection, biodiversity, flood prevention and food security. Land take โ understood as the conversion of land to artificial surfaces โ is a pressing issue in the peri-urban areas, where agricultural land and housing developments meet and pressure for land reallocation is particularly high. This dissertation project explores to the role of...
Strategic regional planning is driven and implemented by a network of institutional actors with diverse interests embedded in a specific institutional setting (Purkarthofer et al., 2021). This contribution examines the relationship between such planning actors and their respective institutional context, particularly regarding the impact of regulatory instruments on decision-making processes...
This study focuses on the construction of regional multi-dimensional proximity network and the application of collaborative agglomeration between regions, aiming to rethink the regional construction model and promote fair distribution of resources.
This study focuses on the construction of multidimensional proximity networks in regional areas and the exploration of their application in...
Despite numerous initiatives at the European level to reduce land take, built-up areas continue to expand more rapidly than population growth throughout Europe (Schiavina et al., 2022). Legal and policy frameworks at the EU, national, and local levels outline land protection, soil management, and ecosystem restoration obligations. Moving forward, cities will increasingly need to redevelop...
Land Value Capture (LVC) mechanisms, such as Section 106 agreements (S106) and the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), are widely regarded as crucial tools for funding urban development by redistributing the value generated through public investments in England. While much of the existing literature has focused on the economic implications of these instrumentsโparticularly their effects on...
Environmental assessments (EAs) serve as key instruments for evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects (Hanna and Arnold, 2022). They are essential for the implementation of energy and mobility projects as part of a sustainability transformation. Public participation is a crucial component of EAs, offering opportunities for stakeholders to engage, shape...
Abstract
In various European member states, there has been a call for enhancing national spatial planning (Yang et al., 2024; Breach, 2024). The housing crisis is an essential driver behind these calls (ESPON, 2024), but not the only one. Protecting essential ecosystem services, promoting renewable energy, climate adaptation and, lately, reserving space for military use have also been cited...
The covid-19 pandemic of 2020 hit Albania just three months after the earthquake of 29 November in the Durrรซs area, with 54 victims and hundreds of buildings damaged. The two crises reshaped the terrain of the political agenda toward the territory in terms of both more centralizing planning policies and the decision-making processes of rebuilding and renewal. The author believes that, for...
The basin of these two rivers, tributary to the Persian Gulf through the Shatt el-Arab, is one of the three large fluvial systems along the ยซ arid diagonal ยป of the Ancient World, between those of Nile and Indus. They all allowed massive transfer of water towards arid plains and thus, together with China, the development of the oldest states. After a quite long and eventful history, this...
Climate change poses major challenges to water management and agricultural sectors across Europe. Floods, drought and water pollution require the development of resilient governance structures. In the framework of the FARMWISE project, funded by the Horizon Europe programme, this study aims to analyze the resilience of actor networks within eight European case studies (CS) โItaly, Poland,...
The proposal draws on Italy's National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI), a place-based policy designed to address the multifaceted development challenges faced by Italyโs inner areas, which are often characterized by demographic decline, geographic isolation, and inadequate access to essential services. SNAI represents a novel policy framework in Italy that emphasizes the importance of...
Grenspark Groot Saeftinghe (Borderpark Saeftinghe) is a transboundary region located within the Flemish-Dutch Delta, a significant river delta shaped by the Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt rivers. The territory of Flemish-Dutch Delta spans provinces in the Netherlands and Belgium, including Antwerp, East Flanders, West Flanders, Zeeland, North Brabant, and South Holland. As a region of strategic...
Stretching from the Mediterranean Sea in the south-west to the Danube plains in the north-east, the Alpine region is one of the most complex and heterogeneous territories in Europe. While there are numerous contributions dealing with the development dynamics of the peri-Alpine lowlands and the inner-Alpine highlands, so far hardly any attention has been given to these territories in between....
This contribution stems from a collaboration in academic research, focusing on the potentialities and contradictions of governance frameworks and planning strategies in shaping the ecological and digital transitions driven by the current European Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP). The study is conducted through a research-by-design approach that led us to adopt an empirical methodology...
Chinese metropolises have concealed numerous conflicts during the era of rapid urbanization, highlighting an urgent necessity to resolve these issues in the context of new-type urbanization. This study focuses on a neighbourhood conflict over a road within Dingshan. Residents of a gated community consider this road to be their internal segment and intend to erect a gate to restrict access....
This contribution presents a critical reflection on the implementation and outcomes of several EU-funded projects (Life and Interreg), developed by the authors, which have supported the establishment of an innovative collaborative and adaptive environmental governance that have stimulated a governance system by integrating formal regulatory frameworks with voluntary agreements and...
Metropolises are increasingly spaces of stark inequalities, characterized by significant disparities in access to resources, housing, and opportunities. While traditional academic literature highlights the positive impacts of the metropolitan scale in fostering economic growth through agglomeration effects (Scott & Storper, 2015; Glaeser, 2011), recent scholarship identifies a critical gap:...
Urban regeneration has become a leading spatial development direction due to the social, political and economic changes brought about by transforming the post-socialist system in Central and Eastern Europe (Hlavรกฤek et al., 2016). It was characterised by rapidly changing management and planning contexts in line with the Western solutions model (Scott, Kรผhn 2012). A long-term and comprehensive...
This paper explores the possibility of scaling up experimental practices emerging from civic initiatives by incorporating them into participatory urban planning processes linked to the construction of wider urban/territorial strategies. The hypothesis of this paper is that in order to enable this scaling up of civic initiatives, participatory processes need to be rethought and innovated,...
Research on industrial transformation and collaborative development in small towns has garnered increasing attention against the backdrop of Chinese-style modernization. However, most existing literature focuses on medium- and large-sized cities or the transformation of traditional rural areas, lacking a systematic investigation of industrial evolution and collaborative approaches in small...
The actor constellation plays an important role in urban studies. Understanding actorsโ power resources and mindsets is of fundamental importance in explaining their behaviours and actions in historic urban district conservation, renovation, and redevelopment as well as urban issues on a wider scope. This paper aims to offer a panoramic description framework and also reflections regarding the...
The involvement of young people in urban development is mandated by the UN Convention and has become a normative goal in regional and urban planning. This goal resonates in particular with the debates on urban commons, which emphasize the importance of engaging young people in shaping shared urban spaces, extending the concept of commons beyond lived experiences to the domain of shared urban...
Urban development in the Netherlands increasingly addresses a wide range of societal challenges, including housing shortage, sustainable energy transition, social inequalities, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. As a result, development processes have become increasingly complex. This complexity has led to a renewed interest in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as governance...
Urban regeneration has been included in the urban planning of different cities, either as a response to observed urban degradation and decline or to give new functions to obsolete areas and control urban growth. Despite its enormous importance in today's urban contexts, urban regeneration is not a simple task, and, in many cases, urban regeneration projects are complex, involving different...
Institutions enable organised and collective efforts to address common concerns and achieve social goals (Dovers, 2001). Institutional innovations can occur at various scales when the context in which people and decision-makers operate changes and impose new constraints on them. Climate Change and environmental challenges are today the main drivers of institutional change at all levels...
Ethiopia is one of the fastest-growing economies and urbanizing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The rapid expansion of existing urban areas and the significant increase in the number of new towns highlight the remarkable trends in Ethiopiaโs urban growth. This urbanization process is accompanied by large-scale urban projects aimed at promoting long-term urbanization and modernization in the...
South Africaโs 31 years of democracy have been characterized by robust legislative efforts to address spatial inequalities entrenched by apartheid. Policies such as the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996), the White Paper on Housing (1994), the Municipal Systems Act (2000), and the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act (SPLUMA, 2013) have laid the groundwork for spatial...
Public engagement is readily placed in defacto and binary categories of โgoodโ and โbadโ practice. At its best, scholarship demonstrates the major benefits of resilience and wellbeing enacted through procedural justice, inclusion and placemaking. More commonly however, practice is dismissed as performative and a tick box exercise, highlighting schisms in practice and rhetoric and is one way....
This work examines manifold connections between memory, urban landscape and trauma in the course of two events that were, and still remain, crucial in shaping the image of city Sarajevo, the 1984 Winter Olympic Games and the War 1992 - 1995. Focusing on the Olympic Mountain Trebeviฤ, an extreme case of urban landscape that is fragmented and fractured on two parts with a deeply contested polity...
Climate change is one of the most critical challenges of our time. It affects billions globally, manifesting in more frequent extreme weather events, rising food insecurity, increasing forced migrations, and accelerating ecological damage. These impacts, manifested at multiple scales from local to global, require coordinated and multi-level policy responses. The European Green Deal (EGD)...
Urban regeneration policies convey the ideas about what the policymakers conceived as the primary issues (among others) in the local areas. It is commonly accepted that such ideas are shaped by the interactions of local social context and global ideological trends (Lees et al., 2015; Leary & McCarthy, 2013). In China, however, the hierarchical national governance structure and ambiguous...
Effective implementation of sustainability policy involves the consideration of governance, evaluation, and a review of the results of an action (Bauer et al., 2012; Jones, 2019; Uittenbroek, 2016) (Bauer et al., 2012; Jones, 2019; Uittenbroek, 2016). But over the past decade, have cities been able to respond effectively to the challenge of circular transition and climate change?
To response...
According to Shatkin (2017), large-scale infrastructure projects act as catalysts for metropolitan expansion, promoting new urbanization dynamics and land-use changes. The structuring of the El Dorado II project, located near the Colombian capital, specifically between the municipalities of Madrid and Facatativรก, exemplifies the promotion of urbanization dynamics in a region that has...
Ongoing urbanization is fundamentally reshaping cities and their surrounding regions. As cities are growing well beyond their administrative boundaries to form highly complex, functionally integrated city-regions with their surrounding municipalities, coordinating spatial development between core cities and neighboring suburban and rural municipalities becomes a key policy challenge. How do...
Development strategies based on community potentials and capabilities have been increasingly employed over the last decades by the European Commission, World Bank, UN and others to foster local development worldwide. However, they are not a novelty. Since the 1950s these approaches have proliferated across geographies, encompassing various concepts, objectives, and forms. Examples include...
As data becomes a pivotal element in urban development, data governance has emerged as a transformative framework for allocating decision-making authority and responsibilities. Data governance is a system that allocates decision-making authority and responsibilities through data, and it has become increasingly common in the transformation of governance in megacities around the world. Unlike...
Participatory urban planning has increasingly gained attention as a means to foster more inclusive and democratic decision-making processes. However, assessing its effectiveness remains a challenge due to the interplay between objective process characteristics and subjective civic engagement dimensions. This research aims to develop an integrated framework to evaluate participatory planning...
Introduction
Tactical urbanism complements urban planning by offering creative solutions to urban challenges. Inspired by this concept, street experiments involve intentional, temporary changes in street use, policy, or form to promote people-centric streets. Although such initiatives have been implemented globally (Zhao et al., 2024), they have faced limited success in Hong Kong. Central...
The Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) initiative is a multi-fund, place-based, and citizen-centred policy launched by the European Commission in the 2014โ2020 community programming cycle. As an evolution of the LEADER programme which started in the 1990s exclusively for rural areas and expanded to coastal settings in 2007, the CLLD policy encompassed urban areas in its scope for the first...
The development of inter-regional megaprojects presents a complex governance challenge, particularly when such projects intersect with diverse political and institutional landscapes at the local level. This research examines the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) as a case study to explore how governance dynamics shape infrastructure-led development. As part of Indonesiaโs National...
Urban shrinkage, characterized by sustained population decline and often accompanied by economic downturn, spatial decay, and reduced quality of life, represents both a warning signal of urban decline and a critical juncture for strategic intervention. While Western post-industrialized nations have developed planning paradigms like "smart shrinkage" - advocating spatial intensification and...
The history of large-scale mining in South Africa stretches back more than 160 years. For more than a hundred of these years, Anglo American has been a major actor in this space, not only generating a large slice of the countryโs corporate and personal income tax, but also providing (1) livelihoods and positive life chances to hundreds of thousands of South Africans, (2) the economic lifeblood...
In classical China, cities and villages functioned as two distinct yet complementary communities: the former served administrative and economic functions, while the latter acted as a foundation for agricultural production. However, as modern urban development advanced in China, this complementary urban-rural relationship gradually disintegrated. Cities came to be regarded as โadvanced,โ while...
Urban energy systems account for over 70% of global carbon emissions, making the adoption of renewable energy sources crucial to achieving global reduction targets. In recent years, wind, solar, and waste heat have all experienced considerable growth. However, mismatches between fluctuating renewable energy supply and the steady demand patterns of traditional urban energy usage often lead to...
Vendor markets, often perceived as merely hubs of commerce, are, in fact, vital generators of urban life. Historically, food markets have played a pivotal role in fostering community resilience by creating employment opportunities, integrating immigrants, and enriching cultural identities (Morales, 2010). The social spaces nurtured within markets help shape the unique identities of modern...
In general, the Latin American planning framework lacks a regulative body for characterizing the urban and the rural areas (Minvu et al., 2018), highlighting the need for integrated approaches that balance the complementarity roles of the urban and rural (Garzilli et al., 2022). Several authors have pointed out the necessity for a new scale of analysis to tackle the transitional spaces that...
Next Generation EU, translated into National Recovery and Resilience Plans, stands in Italy as the first ambitiously funded opportunity for territorial regeneration in decades. It consists of six missions (to which the REPower EU directive was recently added) covering the digital transition and innovation, infrastructures, health, education, social inclusion and the green transition...
For about twenty years, the last mile of delivery has become a category of public policy in Paris. The left-wing coalition (socialist, environmentalist and communist) currently in power in the French capital has addressed this issue several times during the last municipal term. This is evidenced by two "shock operations" (Halpern, 2020) that this paper examines. On the one hand, between 2020...
Scholars have documented the failure of local land use planning efforts to protect industrial uses from encroachment and displacement from other uses, especially in โstrong marketโ cities where redevelopment pressures are strong (Ferm and Jones 2017; Grodach 2022). Regional planning regimes offer the prospect of a broader vision to protect from localized land use pressures, but have been prone...
In the context of Chinaโs rural revitalization strategy, rural governance faces significant challenges, including insufficient public participation, lack of professional expertise, and a limited variety of participation methods. Additionally, rural areas suffer from depopulation as young people migrate to cities or abroad, further exacerbating the disconnect between rural communities and their...
Intra-regional unevenness has become a bottleneck to the vision of regional sustainability. In response, a variety of governance tools have been adopted to rebalance the relations between regional core cities, which face an over-concentration of population and industry resulting in severe socio-economic development pressures, and secondary cities, which are smaller-sized and less valued in the...
The role of performance indicators in planning has a long history (Clarke and Wilson 1994, Haughton 1997). This work has largely concluded that indicators introduced for planning have been either administrative in nature or โof dubious valueโ (Haughton, 1997, 1) as effective measures of planning performance. Nevertheless, Governments across the political spectrum, and in many parts of the...
A common debate in urban planning and urban regeneration is around the effective and speedy delivery of long-term regeneration outcomes. Time-limited and delivery-focused organisations, such as Development Corporations, have long been posited as ideal mechanisms to achieve that dual aim. But little attention to date has been given to the temporal nature of such organisations and how the...
In the context of globalisation, the city regions have progressively supplanted individual cities as the primary spatial unit for global competition (Zhang and Zhao,2023). Consequently, regional governance and transboundary planning issues have emerged as pivotal considerations in regional spatial research (Purkarthofer, Humer and Mรคntysalo,2021). The New Regionalism Theory underscores the...
The definition and recognition of borders through the mobility of migrants develops around the reflection on the relationship between borders, territory and the phenomenon of migration: borders as social constructs are strictly related to cross-border control and transnational cooperation and the creation of functional spaces of mobility or containment.
Starting from the relationship between...
In doing Discourse Analysis in Governance and Public Policies (Fischer, 2003), Multi-Method Qualitative Critical Discourse Analysis (Nielson & Nรธrreklit, 2009; Alejandro & Zhao, 2023) has been adopted to the focus of European discourse studies (Blommaert, & Bulcaen, 2000). This contribution looks at the conceptualisation and operationalisation of JGT as matters of multi-level meta-governance...
In the age of planetary urbanisation, regional and spatial planning strategies are increasingly favoured by national governments to respond to global urban challenges, as they can guide the development and management of land, resources and large-scale infrastructure across large territories. By becoming a form of articulator between the urban development of cities and the integral development...
As a flagship project of intergovernmental collaboration between China and Singapore, the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) has not only catalyzed regional economic growth but also emerged as an important case of transnational urban planning knowledge transfer and spillover. This study focuses on the dynamic flow of planning knowledge within SIP, investigating how Singapore's urban planning...
Logistics is increasingly central to the functioning of contemporary capitalism, intertwining supply chains, infrastructure corridors and distribution centres. Although it is often associated with the movement of flows and global connectivity, logistics also consists of settlements - such as freight villages, hubs and warehouses - that have a spatial, economic, and social footprint with a...
The Birrarung, also known as the Yarra River, located in Victoria, Australia, flows for 242 kilometers from the mountains of north-east Melbourne down through the heart of Melbourne city, out into the bay. The Birrarung is known to the original Wurundjeri people as the 'river of mists and shadowsโ. Colonization and development of the greater Melbourne area have led to the straightening and...
The Study attempts to explore the Urban planning and the incorporation of indigenous land governing institutions in the Urban land governance of the Shillong city. Shillong is the capital city of the state of Meghalaya situated in North-eastern part of India. About 86% of the population in the state consists of indigenous people of three major tribes namely Garo, Khasi and Jaintia. The city of...
This paper discusses the approaches, challenges and suggestions built environment practitioners have regarding the implementation of place-based policies. Place-based policies have been thought of and implemented in the past two decades in diverse disciplinary fields. Economic development and urban economics have been at the forefront of this discussion and approach, focusing on impact and...
