Strategic spatial planning under regime governance and localism: experiences from the North West of England

Bafarasat, Abbas Ziafati; Baker, Mark

doi:10.3828/tpr.2016.43

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“…Facilitating dialogue with local businesses was the original task of local industry offices when they were inaugurated across the municipalities during the 1980s. The questionnaire survey included various questions about how local industry offices communicate with different constellations and networks of actors within local industry, which are considered to be quite important for local interventions (Bafarasat and Baker, 2016; Barca et al, 2012; Vázquez-Barquero and Rodríguez-Cohard, 2016). Table 2 shows that, in relation to this aspect, almost all respondents explained that they had frequent contact with the local business network.…”

Section: Local Development Policy: Similarities and Variations Across...mentioning

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Decentralised development policy: A comparative study on local development interventions through municipalities in Sweden

Hermelin

Trygg

2021

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This article investigates how the international wave of decentralisation of development policy, promoted through ideals of place-based policy, becomes practice through development interventions made by municipalities in Sweden. Based on an extensive empirical study across Swedish municipalities, the article contributes with knowledge about how the decentralisation of development policies is formed through a combination of shared and relatively heterodox conditions for development interventions across the different categories of municipalities: cities, towns and rural settlements. The results describe the varying scope of local development interventions and how decentralisation involves differentiating the involvement of municipalities into vertical and horizontal relations within the planning sector. The article’s findings about the variations in local development interventions across the different categories of municipalities contribute to the debate within geography on the varying capacities of different geographical formations to mobilise for bottom-up development, leading to the weaker regions remaining weak. The results of this article also illustrate the importance of reflecting upon how particular national planning systems shape the implications of the general international trend towards the decentralisation of local development policy.

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Section: Local Development Policy: Similarities and Variations Across...mentioning

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Decentralised development policy: A comparative study on local development interventions through municipalities in Sweden

Hermelin

Trygg

2021

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…A lot of research dealing with regional councils of discussing governance structures and processes focusses on cases in the United States or in Europe [2,14,36,38,[48][49][50][51][52]. To overcome this research bias, a differentiation of five global areas has been set in advance: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa (see the five coloured sections in Figure 2).…”

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“…In this regard, the regional level is seen as a necessary complement to the municipal and national level of decision taking. Fortifying the regional level can be explained by the claim of political actors to strategically influence socio-economic developments and their spatial appearance beyond the sometimes limited and locally grounded interests of municipal actors [14]. Therefore, cooperation needs to overcome municipal boundaries and can result in creating new constellations of stakeholders [15,16].…”

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Regional Councils in a Global Context: Council Types and Council Elements

Growe

Jemming

2019

Urban Science

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Propelled by the increasing global competition for location qualities and production factors of (economic) regions in the age of globalization, regional councils have been introduced on sub-national levels in a number of countries. However, the conditions to develop and to govern these regional spaces vary massively in global comparison. Based on three types of elements for the well-functioning of regional councils, in this study, ten regional councils across the globe have been analysed and compared by carrying out qualitative web researches and expert’s interviews. Results show that although huge differences between the political organizations in the globally selected case studies exist, two main forms and two sub-types of councils—with a specific functional orientation—can be identified. The aim of the paper is to provide an analytical framework that can be used in analysing regional councils or in processes to develop regional councils further.

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“…Meanwhile, the UN-Habitat (2012) highlights spatial planning as the crux to achieving sustainable prosperity; its integrative perspective can overcome sectoral policy silos by recognising and balancing the nexus between different dimensions of urban functionalities that are most densely in play at the metropolitan level (Wong 2015). Spatial planning aims to coordinate the spatial impacts of sectoral policies and is an important lever for promoting sustainable development and improving the quality of life (United Nations 2008)-core agendas for public policy that are otherwise very difficult to address in the frequent absence of a single metropolitan or regional government (Ziafati Bafarasat and Baker 2016a). It has been undertaken to serve different purposes including economic development and restructuring, place branding, core city revival, flood risk control, institutional and governance reform, mega infrastructure development, and trans-territorial policy coordination (Albrechts 2017), with international observations of some success at the metropolitan and regional levels (Healey et al 2003;Albrechts et al 2017).…”

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The Legitimation of Planning Processes as a Challenge to Metropolitan Governance

Growe

Baker

Bafarasat

2020

Administrative Sciences

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This study identifies three types of legitimation from the literature that can be applied within metropolitan governance in the contested sphere of spatial planning: input legitimation, throughput legitimation, and output legitimation. The reason for discussing different forms of legitimation within metropolitan governance is that, globally, only a relatively few metropolitan regions are governed directly through a single elected tier of government such as a regional council. Thus, governance mechanisms in most metropolitan regions involve some form of joint working or cross border governance initiatives that have to be legitimized in the absence of a single overarching elected council covering the whole metropolitan area. The main question discussed in this paper is, therefore, whether all three types of legitimation identified are utilized to legitimize governance mechanisms at the metropolitan scale with a specific focus—as a core part of metropolitan governance—on spatial planning processes and projects. In conceptual terms, our typology structures fuzzy lines of legitimation across the three (the “how”, “who” and “what”) suggested aspects of metropolitan governance in the literature. From this point, we draw on cross-case reviews of variables involved in the design, application, and outcome of input, throughput, and output legitimation in Germany and England, chosen because neither has a formal tier of metropolitan-wide government despite their differences in terms of their highly regionalised and highly centralised national government contexts respectively. This relational methodology helps us to learn about the contextual dynamics of how the three types of legitimation might reinforce one another in different international settings, leading to the overall conclusion that they will work best in combination, although output legitimation has a distinctive capacity to work in less formal settings.

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Strategic spatial planning under regime governance and localism: experiences from the North West of England

Cited by 9 publications

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Decentralised development policy: A comparative study on local development interventions through municipalities in Sweden

Decentralised development policy: A comparative study on local development interventions through municipalities in Sweden

Regional Councils in a Global Context: Council Types and Council Elements

The Legitimation of Planning Processes as a Challenge to Metropolitan Governance

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