Tensions in city-regional spatial planning: the challenge of interpreting layered institutional rules

Autor(en)
Kaisa Granqvist, Alois Humer, Raine Mäntysalo
Abstrakt

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(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
Aalto University, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
Journal
Regional Studies
Band
55
Seiten
844-856
Anzahl der Seiten
13
ISSN
0034-3404
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1707791
Publikationsdatum
2021
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
507001 Angewandte Geographie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Allgemeine Umweltwissenschaft, Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/6ca900ea-a94d-4304-a18e-72065f9dfee2