Tensions in city-regional spatial planning : the challenge of interpreting layered institutional rules

Kaisa Granqvist; Alois Humer; Raine Mäntysalo

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Tensions in city-regional spatial planning : the challenge of interpreting layered institutional rules

Kaisa Granqvist^*, Alois Humer, Raine Mäntysalo

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Austrian Academy of Sciences

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The paper studies city-regional spatial planning from an institutional perspective. It applies theories of discursive institutionalism and gradual institutional change to analyse the dialectics of spatial planning and governance between discursively constructed city-regions and the pre-existing regional and local institutional territories. A strained dialectical relationship emerges when city-regional strategic spatial planning is instituted as a supplementary programmatic layer onto the existing strongly regulatory statutory planning, yet leaving intact its deeply institutionalized core-level meaning. Through the case study of the Kotka-Hamina city-region of Finland, the paper explores a situated city-regional attempt to overcome these tensions and generate policy-level change by blending the layered rules and reinterpreting their meaning.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	844-856
Number of pages	13
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	55
Issue number	5
Early online date	22 Jan 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1707791
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

city-region
discursive institutionalism
institutional change
statutory planning
strategic spatial planning

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