Cohesion and Subsidiarity: Towards Good Territorial Governance in Europe

The message of this paper is twofold: (a) the pursuit of territorial cohesion, the importance of which the new European Constitution recognises, requires coordination of national planning systems; and (b) subsidiarity, a Community principle usually invoked to counteract it, should instead become the...

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Published inTown planning review Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 93 - 106
Main Author Rivolin, Umberto Janin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2005
Subjects
Communities
Community development
Constitutional law
Cooperation
EU directives
Europe
European integration
European Union
Foreign policy
Governance
Government relations
International community
Legal systems
Planning
Policy co-ordination
Political action committees
Political sociology
Principles
Regional planning
Regions
Social cohesion
Spatial analysis
Subsidiarity
Territorial issues
Territories
Territory
Treaties
Urban governance
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Summary:The message of this paper is twofold: (a) the pursuit of territorial cohesion, the importance of which the new European Constitution recognises, requires coordination of national planning systems; and (b) subsidiarity, a Community principle usually invoked to counteract it, should instead become the principle underlying a feasible and effective form of such coordination at the EU (European Union) level. Indeed, the Constitution should at least encourage planners to discuss principles of good EU territorial governance by addressing the performance of statutory planning systems in the common area of territorial cohesion. In brief, these principles might be termed vertical subsidiarity, horizontal subsidiarity, and the coordination between subsidiarity and cohesion.
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ISSN:0041-0020
1478-341X
DOI:10.3828/tpr.76.1.8