Spatial planning and territorial governance in Southern Europe between economic crisis and austerity policies

verfasst von

Simone Tulumello, Giancarlo Cotella, Frank Othengrafen

Abstract

This article examines how spatial planning systems have changed in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece in times of economic recession and austerity politics, in amid pressures of external actors, and local conditions and traditions. We analyse the round of reforms of spatial planning and territorial governance implemented by national governments under pressures by European institutions, as well as local responses to them. On the one hand, we highlight how European institutions have used the conditionalities attached to bailout packages and other instrument of pressure to frame what can be considered an implicit Southern European spatial planning policy developed by the European Union. On the other, we suggest that Southern European planning amid crisis and austerity should be understood, together, as field that problematizes the idea of Europeanization of planning; a space used as ‘prototype’ for new rounds of neoliberalization; and a political space that continuously develops through top-down/bottom-up dialectic conflicts.

Externe Organisation(en)

Universidade de Lisboa
Politecnico di Torino (POLITO)
Technische Universität Dortmund

Typ

Artikel

Journal

International Planning Studies

Band

25

Seiten

72-87

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

1356-3475

Publikationsdatum

2020

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Geografie, Planung und Entwicklung

Elektronische Version(en)

http://hdl.handle.net/10451/40583 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2019.1701422 (Zugang: Geschlossen)