Towards a European Spatial Development Perspective

1998 ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Karolijn M. Ginneken
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Development ◽  
Development Perspective

scholarly journals The crisis of European spatial development policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejan Djordjevic ◽  
Tijana Dabovic
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Specific Point ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Spatial Policy ◽  
Development Perspective

Although the European Union has no formal authority in the area of spatial policy, in sectoral policies can have a clear spatial impact. In this sense it conducts a de facto - and usually uncoordinated - form of spatial policy. An informal policy document produced six years ago sought to remedy this by offering an embryonic form of European spatial policy: the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP). So far, no follow-up has been produced. Is this because the current document is sufficient for addressing Europe's spatial issues or because interest in this endeavor has waned? Or are we simply in a period of transition towards a new ESDP? This brief review deals with those dilemmas, from a specific point of view of the observers, both curious and worried.

scholarly journals Polycentricity in a developing world: A micro-regional analysis for morphological polycentricity in Turkey

GeoScape ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Aydan Sat
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Regional Analysis ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Development Perspective

Abstract Following the publication of ‘European Spatial Development Perspective’ in 1999, a large number of theoretical and empirical studies have been carried out on polycentric spatial development especially in European settlements. The relationship between polycentricity and economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability and social cohesion are some of the main concerns of these studies. This study aims to clarify ‘the meaning of polycentricity’ in the case of Turkey, as a developing country and analyse the relationship between polycentric spatial development and economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability and social cohesion. After calculation of morphological polycentricity of the regions at NUTS-5 level, the propositions on the positive effects of polycentric spatial development on economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability and social cohesion is tested by using Pearson correlation and OLS regression models. The results of the empirical study are mixed for these three subjects. Polycentric spatial development has not positive effects on economic competitiveness and social cohesion in Turkey case. Conversely, a positive effect exists in terms of environmental sustainability. It can be said, that to reach those policy aims highlighted by European Spatial Development Perspective, could not be realised by only taken into account polycentric spatial development in Turkey case.

scholarly journals Editorial

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. i-i
Author(s):  
Olivier Sykes
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Member States ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Development Perspective

This issue of Transactions of AESOP brings together a series of papers which reflect on the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) document which was adopted by the then member states of the European Union (EU) in Potsdam, Germany in 1999, and is published shortly after the adoption in December 2020 of a new EU Territorial Agenda 2030 document under the recent German EU Presidency. It features an introduction and five original papers which explore the legacies of the ESDP and the present and future prospects for European territorial development and urban policy.

scholarly journals Resources for the application of the european spatial development perspective in Castilla-La Mancha

2007 ◽  
Vol LXVIII (263) ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Pillet Capdepón ◽  
Mª Del Carmen Cañizares Ruiz ◽  
Ángel Raúl Ruiz Pulpón ◽  
Julio Plaza Tabasco ◽  
Jesús F. Santos Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Development ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Development Perspective

scholarly journals Fake or real EU Territorialicy? Debating the territorial universe of EU policies

Europa XXI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Systematic Overview ◽  
Territorial Cohesion ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Development Perspective

This paper provides new insights into the main pillars of the territorial universe of EU policies, by undertaking a systematic overview of European Union (EU) key territorial development reports, agendas and programmes. These include the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), the three Territorial Agendas, and the European Territorial Observatory Network (ESPON) reports. The evidence shows widespread territorialicy, understood as a process of incorporating a territorial driven policy design, implementation and evaluation paradigm, still largely dominated by territorial development and territorial cohesion policy rationales. However, the socioeconomic policy prism continues to dominate the design and analysis of EU policies by EU entities.

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