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)

Knelpunten gebiedsontwikkeling: De rol van Europese richtlijnen

Soft spaces and governance: The transformation of planning

Soft space governance arrangements are emerging all over Europe and at all geographical scales. Soft space approaches complement, but do not come in place of statutory planning. They are a reaction on and reflection of the changing context in which planning aims to be effective and as such indicate a reworking of the boundaries of the planning...

Implications of territorial cohesion: An essay

Van projectologie naar planologie en vice versa

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...

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...

The institutionalisation of European spatial planning

This book questions whether and how European spatial planning is becoming institutionalised. Since the first steps towards creating spatial planning at the European level were taken some twenty years ago, it seems appropriate to look back at what has been achieved over this period. Notable achievements have been the adoption of the European...

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...