Practice of Planning Coordination for Crossborder Spatial Governance in the Yangtze River Delta Region: A Transformative Analysis in Meta-Governance

Nowadays, city clusters have become an important spatial form in the process of global urbanization, characterized by contiguous development across provincial, municipal, and county administrative boundaries, given all-around cross-border circulation of socio-economic factors at the regional scale has become the trend. In order to pursue their...

4D Musrenbang: Designing User Experience (UX) to Support Public Participation in Spatial Planning for Indonesia

Public participation is an important prerequisite for the success of spatial planning. Technology can help improve the quality and amount of public participation in spatial planning. This paper describes the development of the User Experience (UX) design guideline named ‘4PHASE toolkit’. The toolkit was used to create a web-based GIS prototype,...

4D Musrenbang: Designing User Experience (UX) to Support Public Participation in Spatial Planning for Indonesia

Public participation is an important prerequisite for the success of spatial planning. Technology can help improve the quality and amount of public participation in spatial planning. This paper describes the development of the User Experience (UX) design guideline named ‘4PHASE toolkit’. The toolkit was used to create a web-based GIS prototype,...

Challenges of adaptation to the increasing flood risk in cities: lessons from the Pearl River Delta

In some of the delta cities which are the most exposed to flooding caused by climate change - like Shenzhen and Guangzhou investigated in this paper - there is surprisingly little recognition of this problem and hardly any action is taken to address it. This paper draws on the insights from these two cases to address the following research...

The Gap of Climate Adaptation Development of the Spatial Planning System in Taiwan: How the Multilevel Planning Agencies Respond to Climate Risk

Recognizing that climate risk is a real threat to the environment and society, spatial planning plays a key role in developing adaptation policy responses as well as in integrating the territorial or spatial impacts of governmental sectoral policies. Planning for adaptation through policy intervention will speed up the implementation of climate...

Poldering between control and laissez faire: The example of harmonizing subsoil management and spatial planning

The purpose of this contribution is to look at different planning contexts into which decisions about subsoil engineering presently need to be integrated. There are many ways of doing as well as theorizing spatial planning; and planning practice is constantly changing. Next to that, soil legislation and management has become more important to...

Spatial planning and residential expansion in the Global South: Evidence from Lima, Peru

Until the 1990s, the Peruvian housing policies exhibited a wide tolerance toward occupation of peripheral land by poor residents, while the state solved the housing demand of the poor allocating large extensions of land for new informal settlements. In front of a very weak spatial planning, the housing policy became a de-facto land-use policy,...

Bringing central regulation and local governance interaction together: The case of the Markermeer-IJmeer Natura 2000 area

This paper draws attention to a case in which Natura 2000 regulation, problematic ecological conditions, governance congestion and the aim to develop large urban projects are to go hand in hand in the soft space of the Markermeer-IJmeer area, a 30 by 25 km lake in the centre of the Netherlands. The key interest is how central regulation is...

Climate awareness, preparation resilience and measuring adaptability of the governance system in Rotterdam for flood risks

Best Practices and Policy Transfer in Spatial Planning: Draft

Numerous European programmes and initiatives have been instrumental in identifying a large (and increasing) number of examples of best practice (or good practice) in the field of spatial planning. In fact, there is now a profligacy of best practice, which means that many policy-makers are confronted with too much information if they try to...

Exploring controversies regarding planning and spatial development in practice

Water neutrality and housing in the Dutch water-metropolis

Dutch approach to coastline management

In the Netherlands we have a strong tradition in making zoning regulations, town and country planning, and so on The Ministry of Environmental Affairs, Town and Country Planning and Housing is one of the most important ministries in this country In matters of planning the basis is the "memorandum on town and country planning", which is renewed...