Title: The Euroregional Planning Approach as a Possible Variant of Regional Planning in Complex Multi-Regional Spaces
Abstract: Abstract This special issue of disP is dedicated to the exploration of some of the difficulties as well as the novelties connected with the construction of Euroregions, a major political and spatial challenge for the future of the whole of Europe. The special issue presents a series of contributions previously presented and discussed at a meeting held at the University of Udine in northeastern Italy in 2009. The following contribution is an introduction to a specific case but, at the same time, is an occasion to make a more general reflection on these kinds of processes. Starting from the basic concepts of “region” and “regional planning”, it tries to explore the validity of a possible European variant of regional planning that could be called “Euroregional planning” because it is aimed at the construction of multi-regional spaces in Europe. This shift from regional to Euroregional is neither a matter of scale nor of geo-political context. Rather it is a matter of the structural complexity of the process itself. The Alpine- Adriatic Euroregion is an international region at the intersection of three European cultures and nations: Austria (German), Italy (Latin), and Slovenia and Croatia (Slavic). The ongoing process of building the Alpine-Adriatic Euroregion demonstrates that traditional regional planning process, normally centered on a specific jurisdiction, is not a valid approach in such situations. Therefore, a more suitable approach should be found that would have the capacity to deal explicitly with the persistence of strong political, administrative and even cultural diversities in the various regions. To discuss these questions, the following are central questions: • What is regional planning nowadays in Europe? • With particular reference to the Alpine-Adriatic area, what is the process of building a Euroregion? • Would a kind of “Euroregional planning approach” help the processes aimed at the construction and development of Euroregions?
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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