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Tag Archives: planning
How to improve the adaptive capacity of Dutch Planning
10 proposals for change that, once implemented, will make the planning system less rigid and more adaptive. > New book. Free download @ InPlanning. > More information about Evolutionary Governance @ governancetheory.com. Spatial planning is facing a paradox. The last … Continue reading
Posted in Netherlands
Tagged adaptive capacity, governance, innovation, planning, public administration, resilience, spatial planning
The bio-politics of the Danube Delta
For many years Silk Road Research has funded scientific research in the Danube Delta. Field work was carried out in both the Romania and the Ukrainian side of the border. This book presents the findings of this work. The Danube Delta … Continue reading
Posted in Romania, Ukraine
Tagged biopolitics, culture, environmental governance, history, nature, planning, politics, scoiety
Evolutionary Governance Theory: Theory and Applications
This new book in the series on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT) presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on the most important concepts and their interrelations. Through this book we learn how communities understand themselves and their environment. Authors from different … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged development, discourse, economics, framing, governance, planning, policy, politics, rural development, theory
Trust related dynamics in contested land use
Using insights about in-group and intergroup dynamics from social identity theory and sociology, we studied trust dynamics in intergroup relations in the Baviaanskloof (South Africa) over time. We conclude that in-group interpretations of intergroup interactions contribute to the lack of … Continue reading
Posted in South Africa
Tagged conflict management, contested land use, development, EGT, governance, participation, planning, trust
Formal/Informal Dialectics and the Self-Transformation of Spatial Planning Systems: An Exploration
Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen & Martijn Duineveld In this article, we present a perspective on the interaction between formal and informal institutions in spatial planning in which they transform each other continuously, in processes that can be described and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged citizens, civil society, governance, government, informality, planning, policy, politics
Tblisi:Urban transformation and role transformations in the post-Sovjet metropolis
Kristof Van Assche and Joseph Salukvadze Tbilisi is the capital of Georgia. This bookchapter describes that and how the urban problems that have emerged since indepence could be addressed by means of urban planning and urban design strategies. The authors … Continue reading
Posted in Georgia
Tagged architecture, Georgia, governance, landscape architecture, planning, urban design, urban planning
Tbilisi reinvented: planning, development and the unfinished project of democracy in Georgia
Kristof Van Assche & Joseph Salukvadze In this paper, we highlight the changing developmental patterns and planning strategies for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, from late communism till the present day. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, interviews, analysis of documents and plans, … Continue reading
Posted in Georgia
Tagged development, Georgia, innovation, planning
