| CODE | SPI5203 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Spatial Planning in the European Union | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Spatial Planning and Infrastructure | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Although spatial planning is not a European Union (EU) competence, legislative/policy developments within sectors such as transportation, the environment, and regional development, in regards to which the EU can adopt legally binding acts, fall under the ‘umbrella’ of spatial planning. Furthermore, it is well known that the debate concerning recognition of a European spatial-planning dimension has been going on for a long time. Following the issue, in 1999, of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESPD), and the recent inclusion of ‘territorial cohesion’ within the list of EU competences, this debate has intensified. In this study-unit, the students will be introduced to the history of the EU with a focus on the developments that have led to the current state of affairs with respect to spatial planning. They will be participating in seminars which will be led by internationally renowned experts in the field of the EU dimension of spatial planning. These seminars will be held in the second half of the seminar. The students will be prepared for the seminars through the literature, case-studies, and documents which are available in different pages in the EUROPA website, and personal communications with personalities involved in spatial planning who would have worked closely with their counterparts in other EU Member States, in the European Commission, and other agencies. Study-unit Aims In the aftermath of the issue of the European Spatial Development Perspective and the subsequent adoption by the European Union of the territorial cohesion concept, it is considered essential for the students to be kept abreast of developments in EU policy and other initiatives which are connected with spatial planning. This study-unit is intended to contribute towards the preparation of the students to practice spatial planning within environments which are influenced by EU policies which have a spatial dimension. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to describe and discuss with a degree of authority the principal issues and debates that have focused on the European Union dimension of spatial planning, and explain the thinking underlying the positions taken by different sides of the debates; and 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to form part, initially as a junior member, and after gaining experience, as a professional researcher or planner, of teams which would be involved in transnational spatial planning projects within the European Union. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Adams, N., Alden, J., & Harris, N. (Eds.). (2006). Regional Development and Spatial Planning in an Enlarged European Union. Aldershot: Ashgate. Adams, N., Cotella, G., & Nunes, R. (Eds.). (2010). Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: Knowledge and Policy Development in an Enlarged EU. Abingdon: Routledge. Atkinson, R., Georgios, T., & Zimmerman, K. (Eds.). (2010). Sustainability in European Environmental Policy: Challenges of Governance and Knowledge. Abingdon: Routledge. Committee on Spatial Development. (1999). ESDP. European Spatial. Development Perspective. Towards Balanced and Sustainable. Development of the Territory of the European Union. Retrieved from EUROPA: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/official/reports/pdf/sum_en.pdf Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. (2011). Study on the Economic Effects of Maritime Spatial Planning: Final Report. (European Commission, Ed.) Saarbrücken: Dictus Publishing. Doria, L., Fedeli, V., & Tedesco, C. (Eds). (2006). Rethinking European Spatial Policy as a Hologram: Actions, Institutions, Discourses. Aldershot: Ashgate. Dühr, S., Colomb, C., & Nadin, V. (2010). European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation. Abington: Routledge. European Commission, Directorate General for Regional Policy. (2011, October). Cities of tomorrow - Challenges, visions, ways forward. Retrieved from EUROPA: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/studies/pdf/citiesoftomorrow/citiesoftomorrow_final.pdf European Commission, Directorate General for Regional Policy. (2012, April 04). Territorial cohesion. Retrieved from EUROPA: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/what/cohesion/index_en.cfm Faludi, A. (Ed.). (2008). European Spatial Research and Planning. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy. Faludi, A. (2010). Cohesion, Coherence, Cooperation: European Spatial Planning Coming of Age? Abingdon: Routledge. Faludi, A., & Waterhout, B. (2002). The Making of the European Spatial Development Perspective: No Masterplan. Abingdon: Routledge. Healey, P., & Upton, R. (Eds.). (2010). Crossing Borders: International Exchange and Planning Practices. Abingdon: Routledge. Leibenath, M., Korcelli-Olejnczak, E., & Knippschild, R. (2008). Cross-border Governance and Sustainable Spatial Development: Mind the Gaps! Berlin: Springer. Scholich, D. (Ed.). (2010). Territorial Cohesion. Berlin: Springer. Tezer, C. (2010). The ESDP's Impact on Multi-level Governance: 'European Spatial Development Perspective' Case Studies of German and French Planning Traditions. Düsseldorf : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. Waterhout, B. (2008). The Institutionalization of European Spatial Planning. Delft: IOS Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Seminar & Independent Study | |||||||||
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