A European Council of Spatial Planners (ECTP) 2019.09.10-13. között rendezte meg 13. európai nagy konferenciáját ezúttal a tervezés a peremterületeken, perifériákon témakörre fókuszálva az angliai Plymouth-ban.
Az ECTP társszervezője a Plymouthi Egyetem Földrajz, Földtudományi és Környezettudományi Intézete volt, amely az egyetem várostervezési mesterszakját gondozza. A harmadik nap nyitóelőadásaként került sor a MUT elnökének prezentációjára, amely a tervezési folyamatok európai átalakulásáról szólt. A konferencián számottevő visszhangot kiváltó előadás a tervezési rendszerek európai országokban tapasztalható átalakulásairól, az ezekben lévő európai trendekről szólt az előadó elmúlt években végzett kutatásai alapján.
Elnök úr előadásának angol nyelvű absztraktja alább olvasható:
EUROPEAN TRENDS IN PLANNING – LESSONS FROM A SURVEY ON CHANGES OF SPATIAL PLANNING
Géza Salamin, President of the Hungarian Society for Urban Planning, Deputy Head, Institute of Geography, Geoeconomy and Sustainable Development, Budapest Corvinus University Council
The paper introduces some of the results of a recent empirical research of the author on the European transformation in (public) spatial planning carried out in 2017-2018 with professional support of the ECTP. The pilot research attempted to measure the emergence of the so called EU-ropean trends in the changes of planning practices of 30 European countries. Based on the review of a profuse literature dealing with the Europeanization of spatial planning as well as on the analysis of messages adaptable from European-level planning and development strategies for the use of nationallevel planning systems, the changing trends encouraged by policy discourses in the European Union were included into the theoretical-conceptual framework of the ’EUropean’ Model of Spatial Planning (EMP). EMP defines the synthetized consequences of this new EU paradigm -described in the literature – to member states in five various dimensions:
1. Topics and priorities of EU policies appear in the plans;
2. A more comprehensive understanding of planning;
3. New spaces of planning-development emerge;
4. The instruments of planning change particularly the soft and integrated instruments become more important facing regulative ones;
5. The process of planning transforms, what increasingly become the form of cooperation and coordination of different actors, while new forms of territorial governance come to existence.
Results of the empirical analysis, which measured the changes in the last 15 years and the current situation at the end of 2017 proved that to different extend, but all five dimensions exist in the transformation of planning systems in most of the countries. The differences among the countries in Europeanisation of planning are demonstrable mostly in the dimension of cultural regions of the European planning (North-western, Eastern, Southern regions), while the role of how long the states have been members of the European integration is secondary. The most Europeanised is the planning of states of north-western region, while the dynamics of their Europeanisation (changes according to the EMP) were moderated in last 15years. In case of The East Central European (eastern) EU member states sensible the most – with Portugal – the effect of the European Union in intensive Europeanisation of spatial planning so much, that their Europeanisation overtook that of the older member Mediterranean region’s by 2017. The post socialist member states were encouraged partly by the instruments of the cohesion policy, and partly by common learning attitude for fast adaptation of the western European patterns. At the same time there are signs, which show that in these trends considered as European trends or Europeanisation turn up certain fractions, like in the spread of governance forms, or even the recoiling in spread of soft strategic planning forms, or contra direction changes in certain countries, that can result in retardation the dynamics of Europeanisation.