TY - JOUR

T1 - Strategic Spatial Planning

T2 - Responding to Diverse Territorial Development Challenges: Towards an Inductive Comparative Approach

AU - Walsh, Cormac

AU - Allin, Simone

PY - 2012/12/1

Y1 - 2012/12/1

N2 - The concept of strategic spatial planning has come to represent a particular concern to broaden the scope and enhance the governance capacity of spatial policy and practice in a European context. It is increasingly evident, however, that the concept represents a diversity of multifaceted and fragmented practices, confounding assumed narratives of Europeanization and policy convergence. This article seeks to move towards a context-sensitive, inductive understanding of spatial planning in a territorially diverse Europe. Emphasis is placed on the need for critical comparative studies to assess the capacity of spatial strategies in practice to respond to diverse territorial development challenges.

AB - The concept of strategic spatial planning has come to represent a particular concern to broaden the scope and enhance the governance capacity of spatial policy and practice in a European context. It is increasingly evident, however, that the concept represents a diversity of multifaceted and fragmented practices, confounding assumed narratives of Europeanization and policy convergence. This article seeks to move towards a context-sensitive, inductive understanding of spatial planning in a territorially diverse Europe. Emphasis is placed on the need for critical comparative studies to assess the capacity of spatial strategies in practice to respond to diverse territorial development challenges.

KW - Geography

KW - Environmental planning

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869464828&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/13563475.2012.726852

DO - 10.1080/13563475.2012.726852

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:84869464828

VL - 17

SP - 377

EP - 395

JO - International Planning Studies

JF - International Planning Studies

SN - 1356-3475

IS - 4

ER -