Planning for spatial equity in Europe

Since planners plan, they claim that their local, regional or national spatial plans are crucial for achieving spatial equity. Starting from the difficulties of defining spatial equity, the paper explores some European dimensions of spatial equity, thereby referring to three recent documents: the Co...

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Published inInternational planning studies Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 101 - 120
Main Author Kunzmann, Klaus R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Colchester Taylor & Francis Group 01.02.1998
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Access to information
Actors
Area planning & development
Centralization
Decision making
Equality
Equity
Federalism
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Highway transportation
Manycountries
Planning
Political power
Regions
Social classes
Social integration. Social relations. Social participation
Social organization. Social system. Social structure
Social policy
Sociology
Strategic planning
Studies
European Union
Europe
Space
Social Inequality
Memory
Equity
Social network
Image
Information
Social Organization
Regional Policy
Regional difference
International policy
Social Integration
Economic organization
Production
Conceptualization
Social Exclusion
Infrastructure
National policy
Planning
Power
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Summary:Since planners plan, they claim that their local, regional or national spatial plans are crucial for achieving spatial equity. Starting from the difficulties of defining spatial equity, the paper explores some European dimensions of spatial equity, thereby referring to three recent documents: the Commission's First Report on Social and Economic Cohesion, the Opinion on Spatial Planning of the Committee of the Regions and the draft European Spatial Development Perspective, having been approved by the Ministers of the Member States of the European Union in June 1997. This is followed by a brief assessment of the role of existing European networks of infrastructure, production, information and power, or those of memories and images, in creating spatial equity in Europe. The paper ends with a presentation and brief justification of the normative concept of the European Bunch of Grapes as a mental vision for spatial equity in Europe.
ISSN:1356-3475
1469-9265
DOI:10.1080/13563479808721701