Towards a European planning system?

European Planning Doctrine: A Bridge Too Far?

“…It was only in 1975 that the Regional Development Fund for promoting development in weaker regions was established (Davies 1994). However, until the seventies, regional policy was restricted to the granting of exceptions from European regulations to regions where their rigorous implementation would create undue hardships.…”

“…Through such networks, planning in the various parts of Europe can rub off on each other (Davies 1994 of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), and the European Council of Town Planners (ECTP), both of which have been in existence for a decade, must surely be partners for such a policy to be implemented. Preparing the ground for a European planning community by using a soft approach as an ingredient of any successful European planning strategy is a key idea behind the research reported on in this paper.…”

European Spatial Planning and the Environment: Planning for Sustainable Development

“…Taken together with the powers contained in Article 130s of the Treaty, which provided the Council of Ministers with the power to 'adopt measures concerning town and country planing', the Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty 'gave the Union a firm mandate to intervene in both regional and environmental policies' (Davies, 1994).…”

Discourses of Mobility and Polycentric Development: A Contested View of European Spatial Planning

“…(Rob Shields, 1992) The emergence of a common EU approach to spatial policy is part of a concerted attempt to impose some vision and coordination across the wide range of policies, regulations and other instruments which implement EU economic and social objectives. Previously, the spatial impacts of many of these policies and programmes have been overlooked in their implementation and evaluation (Davies, 1994). Through the EU spatial policy process a new discourse of European spatial development is taking shape, with the de nition of a new policy language, new knowledge forms and new policies.…”