COMPASS – Comparative Analysis of Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems in Europe. Applied Research 2016-2018: Final Report

The objective of the COMPASS project was to provide an authoritative comparative report on changes in territorial governance and spatial planning systems in Europe from 2000 to 2016. This Final Report presents the main findings, conclusions and policy recommendations. The COMPASS project compares territorial governance and spatial planning in 32...

Duurzame ontwikkeling van grote steden

North Sea STAR Spreading Transnational Results; Targeted Analysis 2013/2/23; Executive Summary, Final Report | Version 31/03/2014

North Sea STAR Spreading Transnational Results; Targeted Analysis 2013/2/23; Scientific Report; Final Report | Version 31/03/2014

Regional design: Discretionary approaches to regional planning in the Netherlands

Regional design is a practice that has in recent decades frequently been applied in spatial planning processes in The Netherlands. The making and use of spatial representations of plausible futures of regions was employed to refine physical implementation strategies and simultaneously, by reaching out for broad, sometimes public, attention, to...

North Sea STAR Spreading Transnational Results; Targeted Analysis 2013/2/23; Main Report, Final Report Version 31/03/2014

Features of good territorial governance in the flood management along the Dutch-German border

Regional integrative territorial strategies in regional development and governance: A closer look at the Dutch MIRT territorial agenda

Meta-governance and developing integrative territorial strategies: The case of MIRT territorial agendas in the Randstad (Netherlands)

Design in the context of fragmented regional governance: Studio South Wing (abstract + presentation)

In European regions, such as the Randstad Holland, emerging patterns of interaction and movement result in increasing spatial fragmentation. This development creates enormous challenges for the governance of territories. Classic forms of government, based upon clear-cut divisions in terms of administrative levels, policy sectors and the public...

Werken aan een hechtere relatie tussen visies en projecten: Handreiking mixed scanning 'nieuwe stijl', eindrapport

Reinventing spatial planning in a borderless Europe: Emergent themes

This paper is a follow-up to the Chicago Round Table ‘Emergent Research Themes on European Territorial Governance’ in 2008 questioning the view of EU territory as the sum of mutually exclusive territories under nation-state control and pointing out the existence of overlapping jurisdictions. Themes were: (1) the relationship between the EU and...

EU Territorial Impact Assessment: Under What Conditions?

Since the start of the making of the ESDP, back in 1989, there has been interest in a ‘Territorial impact assessment’. This interest has been revamped now that the Territorial Cohesion green paper is out. Yet, at the EU level there is still little guidance on how a TIA might be done and on what it actually is or could be. This paper aims to ask...

Fragmentatie en structuur: Uitdagingen voor ruimtelijk onderzoek en beleid. Fragmentation and structure: challenges for spatial research and policy.

EU Territorial Impact Assessment: Under what Conditions?: Final report

Report Commissioned by the Ministry of VROM. Since the start of the making of the ESDP, back in 1989, there has been interest in a ‘Territorial impact assessment’. This interest has been revamped now that the Territorial Cohesion green paper is out. Yet, at the EU level there is still little guidance on how a TIA might be done and on what it...

Closing the Gap: Territorial Cohesion through Polycentric Development

This article discusses and analyses national polycentric development policies aiming at cohesion. Due to its insertion in the 1999 European Spatial Development Perspective ‘polycentricity’ has become an important concept in discussions on Europe’s territorial and economic development. Its content remains however rather unclear. This paper...