Tensions in city-regional spatial planning: the challenge of interpreting layered institutional rules
- Author(s)
- Kaisa Granqvist, Alois Humer, Raine Mäntysalo
- Abstract
The paper studies city-regional spatial planning from an institutional perspective. It applies theories of discursive institutionalism and gradual institutional change to analyse the dialectics of spatial planning and governance between discursively constructed city-regions and the pre-existing regional and local institutional territories. A strained dialectical relationship emerges when city-regional strategic spatial planning is instituted as a supplementary programmatic layer onto the existing strongly regulatory statutory planning, yet leaving intact its deeply institutionalized core-level meaning. Through the case study of the Kotka-Hamina city-region of Finland, the paper explores a situated city-regional attempt to overcome these tensions and generate policy-level change by blending the layered rules and reinterpreting their meaning.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- Aalto University, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
- Journal
- Regional Studies
- Volume
- 55
- Pages
- 844-856
- No. of pages
- 13
- ISSN
- 0034-3404
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1707791
- Publication date
- 2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507001 Applied geography
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Environmental Science, General Social Sciences
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/6ca900ea-a94d-4304-a18e-72065f9dfee2