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

Kaisa Granqvist (Corresponding author), Alois Humer, Raine Mäntysalo

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)844-856
Number of pages13
JournalRegional Studies
Volume55
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 507001 Applied geography

Keywords

  • CITIES
  • EUROPE
  • GLOBALIZATION
  • IDEAS
  • IMAGINARIES
  • POLICY
  • POWER
  • RATIONALITIES
  • RISE
  • SOFT SPACES
  • city-region
  • discursive institutionalism
  • institutional change
  • statutory planning
  • strategic spatial planning

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