Positioning regional planning across Europe

Lukas Smas and Peter Schmitt

Regional Studies, 2021, vol. 55, issue 5, 778-790

Abstract: Many scholars argue that regional planning has lost its political significance and practical relevance in recent years. Based on a comparative analysis of formal regional planning in eight European countries, this study questions and nuances this view. It is concluded that the institutional conditions for regional planning are still extensive and have been adapted to changing contexts since the year 2000, but along different pathways across the analysed countries. The investigation highlights that multiple forms of planning regions have been incorporated in the planning systems through multipurpose planning instruments that have further added to the existing dynamic and diversified regional planning landscape across Europe.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1782879

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