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The Europeanization of Dutch National Spatial Planning: an Uphill Battle
The Netherlands has been part of the European integration process from the early days. It has an open economy and has benefited greatly from being a “natural” entrance to North-West Europe. It should not come as a surprise that Dutch spatial planners, mostly officials of the National Spatial Planning Agency, have played a major role during the past decades in discussions on a European planning agenda. They contributed greatly to the making of the European Spatial Development Perspective. Local and regional governments are enthusiastically participating in the various EU programmes on cross-border and transnational cooperation in the field of spatial planning. But how does this relate to domestic spatial planning policies? The country is maintaining one of the most elaborate and sophisticated systems of national spatial planning and policy. One would expect, knowing the participation in European policy programs and discussions on territorial governance, that Dutch national spatial planning policies do have a strong European inclination. This is not the case though. This paper examines to what extent Dutch national spatial planning is influenced by changes at the international level, especially on the European scale. It also seeks to explain why Dutch national spatial planning is constantly returning to domestic planning issues, mainly on urban form, which play themselves out at lower scales than the national.
The Europeanization of Dutch National Spatial Planning: an Uphill Battle
The Netherlands has been part of the European integration process from the early days. It has an open economy and has benefited greatly from being a “natural” entrance to North-West Europe. It should not come as a surprise that Dutch spatial planners, mostly officials of the National Spatial Planning Agency, have played a major role during the past decades in discussions on a European planning agenda. They contributed greatly to the making of the European Spatial Development Perspective. Local and regional governments are enthusiastically participating in the various EU programmes on cross-border and transnational cooperation in the field of spatial planning. But how does this relate to domestic spatial planning policies? The country is maintaining one of the most elaborate and sophisticated systems of national spatial planning and policy. One would expect, knowing the participation in European policy programs and discussions on territorial governance, that Dutch national spatial planning policies do have a strong European inclination. This is not the case though. This paper examines to what extent Dutch national spatial planning is influenced by changes at the international level, especially on the European scale. It also seeks to explain why Dutch national spatial planning is constantly returning to domestic planning issues, mainly on urban form, which play themselves out at lower scales than the national.
The Europeanization of Dutch National Spatial Planning: an Uphill Battle
Dr.Zonneveld, Wil (Autor:in)
disP - The Planning Review ; 41 ; 4-15
01.01.2005
12 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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