Karina PALLAGST, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Benjamin BLASER, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Various institutional and cultural settings have shaped spatial planning systems with comparable features; however, such systems have been adapted to specific cultural, normative, and spatial conditions. Previous research on planning cultures demonstrates that in view of existing challenges for planning there might be planning cultures that are not framed by geographic entities (nations, regions, cities), but also by topics framed by specific planning tasks. This could open up a new research field of ‘topical planning cultures’.
The cross-border context displays different normative regulations, policies, strategies and spatial concepts, and furthermore also beliefs and values regarding spatial planning. This enhances the complexity of planning cultures to a certain extent. In this setting, the exchange of knowledge about different planning practices, processes and instruments of spatial planning will be a core competence of cross border development (Pallagst, Hartz, Caesar 2018). Additional challenges might evolve with specific cross-border instruments, such as spatial development concepts (Caesar, Pallagst 2018), or EU funding with the aim of sustaining territorial cohesion. In this specific context the possibility might occur that a specific cross border planning cultures will be shaped, based on longstanding experience in cooperation.
Cross border regions offer the possibility to investigate the principles of planning in a comparative mode, thus changes in planning cultures might be detected. The presentation presents ongoing research with the purpose of investigating the empirical base of planning cultures with comparative research in the sphere of cross-border regions (Pallagst, 2021).
In particular, the planning situations of two select cross-border regions between Germany, France, Luxemburg and Belgium (Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux+) and between Germany and Poland will be highlighted.
Mots clés : planning cultures|cross border cooperation|spatial planning|borderlands
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