The Legal, Administrative and Managing Framework for Spatial Policy, Planning and Land-Use. Interdependence, Barriers and Directions of Change

• Other Authors: Nowak, Maciej J. (Editor), Cotella, Giancarlo (Editor), Śleszyński, Przemysław (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Peace studies & conflict resolution; landscape urbanization; metropolises; agglomeration in Poland; urban landscape intensity index; local development; local law; budgets of local units; financial consequences of spatial chaos; urban sprawl; macroeconomics; externalities; budget; spatial policy; economic policy; urban growth management; land use planning; zoning; strategic spatial planning; institutionalism; discourse; Antwerp; Flanders; land use transition; innovation agglomeration; industrial pollution; environmental protection; innovation-driven development; sustainable land use; urbanization; spatial governance and planning; Europe; ESPON; SECI expansion model; local government; green governance; peer behavior; green development; rule by law; law-based governance; housing price; sensitivity; heterogeneity; mediating mechanism; land economic efficiency; environmental pollution; carbon emissions; sustainable cities; eastern China; land policy; planning system; land-use planning; land development; urban development; legal framework; containment; Poland; Germany; Spain; green belt; master plan; planning history; planning policy; urban containment; urban agriculture; Kigali; Singapore; land-use policy; spatial planning; territorial governance; land use; law
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The book aims to explore the legal and administrative aspects of spatial governance and the challenges that their interaction entails. It does this through a number of chapters focusing on case studies located in different geographical areas of Europe and beyond. By doing this, the editors shed light on a set of challenges that emerge around the world at the intersection between the legal and administrative spheres during the governance and planning of territorial phenomena. The issues addressed in the various chapters highlight how spatial planning activities continue to face serious challenges that have not yet been satisfactorily addressed. In more detail, a correlation emerges between the legal regulations that allow and shape spatial-planning activities and the socio-economic and territorial challenges that those activities should tackle. This is often a consequence of the path-dependent influence of the traditional administrative and spatial planning configuration, which presents an inertial resistance to change that is hard to overcome. A similar situation arises concerning the mismatch between the boundaries of the existing administrative units and the extent of territorial phenomena, with a system of judicial-territorial administration that does not always coincide with the boundaries of the fundamental administrative division of a country, leading to an overall deterioration of the conditions in which all actors involved in spatial development operate.