Negotiative land-use and deliberative environmental planning in Italy and Sweden

Abstract

In Western Europe political, administrative and regional fragmentation has become a conspicuous phenomena. This seems to have an impact on urban planning. One of the dividing lines goes between the planning of industrial investments and large-scale infrastructure projects on the one hand and Agenda 21-inspired planning on the other. This paper looks at this dichotomous development and its consequences in the context of two case studies each from Italy and Sweden, respectively.

Physical Planning in Entrepreneurial Urban Governance—Experiences from the Bo01 and Brunnshög Projects, Sweden

“…One could also see this turn to projects and a piecemeal approach as an unavoidable consequence of the growing importance of public-private partnerships and negotiative planning (Cars, 1992;Khakee & Barbanente, 2003), illustrating the close cooperation between public and private actors in order to reach an agreement that will best suit the interests of those involved in the partnership. A project-based approach could be more easily tuned to comply with the interests of the stakeholders involved and to deal with the necessary time and financial constraints imposed.…”

“…A project-based approach could be more easily tuned to comply with the interests of the stakeholders involved and to deal with the necessary time and financial constraints imposed. Additionally, it allowed physical planning to develop through several individual projects with inter-project coordination developing through a series of adjustments and agreements between various actors (Khakee & Barbanente, 2003).…”

“…Fragmentation, as discussed earlier, was a result of the public-private partnerships that brought a wider variety of funding sources, of actors putting claims on the project, and of ways of working (Khakee & Barbanente, 2003;Swyngedouw et. al.…”

“…al. 2002), with the municipality striving to coordinate various resources (Khakee & Barbanente, 2003;Tasan-Kok, 2010).…”

“…al. 2002;Khakee & Barbanente, 2003). In the case of Bo01, the project did diverge from the standard process of physical planning (interviews Johansson and Blucher), but this was related to the specific time constraints and to the demands of a housing exhibition.…”