Planning and the Culture of Governance: Local Institutions and Reform in France

Philip Booth

European Planning Studies, 2007, vol. 17, issue 5, 677-695

Abstract: Legislation introducing major reform of the French planning system is now 6 years old. It was intentionally seen as part of a trio of reforming statutes that linked spatial planning to institutional reform of local government. Taking as its starting point, the idea that planning is inevitably an embedded activity, it explores the relationship between institutional reform and the reform of planning in France generally, and then more specifically in the Région urbaine de Lyon . It concludes that the search for greater simplicity and clarity is not borne out by results on the ground. The French case demonstrates that the success or failure of planning reform is intimately linked to the nature of local government.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/09654310902778060

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