Transnational learning in Creative City Challenge

Report written in the context of the INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge. Based on a series of international expert meetings the report discusses various themes in relation to creative city policy, and analyses the process of transnational learning itself.

Creative City Challenge: Policy measures and applications

Report written in the framework of NSR INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge. The report presents the results of the project by means of an interactive toolkit for policy-makers. It presents policy measures to foster creative city development and their application on CCC partner cities and regions, and discusses the transferability of...

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

Visualisation and map-making in complexity: European, transnational and Randstad experiences

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...

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...