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ESPON workshop “New challenges and thinking for spatial planning systems. Insights from ESPON projects”

ESPON workshop “New challenges and thinking for spatial planning systems. Insights from ESPON projects”

16 October 2018

Suur-Ameerika 1, Tallinn, Estonia

ESPON workshop “New challenges and thinking for spatial planning systems. Insights from ESPON projects”

About event

This ESPON workshop is one of a series of Transnational Outreach events in North Europe (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden) in 2018 and examines current challenges in spatial planning such as the redesign of future national and regional spatial planning systems. In much of Europe, there was a post-war golden age of spatial planning linked to sustained economic growth. Since 2000, a more market-focused approach supply has led to a decline in national and in some countries regional spatial planning.

However, more recently, there is increasing awareness that decentralisation and the market-driven approach have reached their limits and a new agenda is emerging for the coming decades facing such challenges as green growth, support for innovation (industry 4.0, digital economies, robotics, etc.,) climate change, renewable energy, smart and liveable cities (see recent Sweden strategy) and improved mobility and attractiveness for rural areas. Thus, there is more appetite for national visions which include a spatial and environmental dimension based on planning principles of concentration, cohesion of functions, spatial hierarchies and spatial justice and new governance models.

The workshop builds upon relevant analyses and research conducted under the ESPON 2020 cooperation programme. Results from various projects will be presented and discussed in national settings. Perspectives based on current and future practice from neighbouring countries will also inform the discussions.

More information available HERE.