Planning without hybris: top-linked governance to empower bottom-linked initiatives

Andreas Novy and Nora Dornis

Chapter 17 in The Value of Place, 2025, pp 262-277 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter takes up research by Flavia Martinelli and colleagues on multi-scalar governance and urban and regional planning and argues for planning without hybris as scale-sensitive multi-level governance to shape current transformations. Thus, advantages and disadvantages of bottom-up and top-down governance have to be critically scrutinized. This chapter retracts the academic discussions to bottom-linked governance that escapes the localist trap and introduces top-linked governance. While top-linked governance is needed due to the state's capacity to act swiftly and in a targeted manner in setting framework conditions, bottom-linked governance is required to change practices and place-based infrastructures by mobilizing residents as well as local expertise. The chapter closes by arguing for planning without hybris as a humble, reflexive, and democratic form of metagovernance that appreciates place-based and bottom-linked initiatives. It concludes by exploring how macro-economic planning, sectoral planning, and spatial planning need the linkage of policies from above and below.

Keywords: Planning; Bottom-up; Top-down; Multi-level governance; Social-ecological transformation; Social innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035347919
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