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In times of challenging transformations at all spatial levels, the insights provided in this book are highly relevant. Adopting a historical perspective, it examines in great detail the extent to which spatial and urban planning has contributed to social cohesion over the past 30 years.
The issue of cohesion and the policies associated with it are concerns not only for supranational entities such as the EU, but also for nation states and regions alike. Traditional instruments for promoting cohesion include symbolic, economic and social policies. However, given the contemporary tensions at both the international and domestic levels, attempts to create or maintain ›cohesion‹ are so important that innovative approaches must be pursued. This book asks to what extent spatial and urban planning, in their claim to be more than just sectoral policies, have contributed to the cohesion of societies over the last 30 years: at European, intergovernmental, national and regional levels – in times of challenging transformations on all spatial levels. The book is therefore divided into three parts, which examine the achievements and shortcomings of cohesion policies in their theoretical assumptions, at national and regional level, and in intergovernmental cooperation. The various contributions show that spatial cohesion policies are significant factors for the cohesion of societies even beyond their borders, but that these have too often not received the recognition they deserve.
The editors of the book are Detlef Briesen and Wendelin Strubelt.
Further background information on the publication:
In October 2024, the ARL and the University of Rome Tor Vergata jointly hosted the international conference 'The European Space between Consolidation and New Challenges' in Rome.
Building on two previous ARL events — the international conference 'Spatial Planning and Research in Europe 1945–1975' (6–7 October 2022, Berlin) and the ARL conference 'Spatial Planning and Research in West Germany after 1945' (2014, Bonn) — this conference aimed to further explore the topic. All events were conceived by Wendelin Strubelt and Detlef Briesen. The first conference, held in 2014, resulted in the anthology 'Spatial Planning after 1945: Continuities and New Beginnings in the Federal Republic of Germany'.
A key outcome of this initial conference was the realisation that developments in the Federal Republic necessitated the systematic inclusion of the European perspective. This realisation was pivotal for the subsequent publication, 'A New Beginning? Spatial Planning and Research in Europe between 1945 and 1975', which was edited by Detlef Briesen and Wendelin Strubelt with the support of the ARL.
The presentation and in-depth discussion of the anthology 'A New Beginning? Spatial Planning and Research in Europe between 1945 and 1975' attracted so much professional interest at its 2022 event in Berlin that a third event was planned in Rome. This event delved into the historical developments of European cohesion and planning. The results of the Rome conference have now been published by Campus Verlag.
Without historical knowledge and a comparative analysis of developments and path dependencies, it is impossible to understand or shape the future. At ARL, we are delighted to have facilitated these intensive expert discussions and valuable European exchanges over a long period of time, with a changing focus. These discussions have had an important focus and produced valuable findings for the spatial science and spatial planning community in Europe.
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The ARL works at the intersection of science, planning practice and politics. Its research encompasses issues of spatial development and planning, fields in which key societal challenges are becoming increasingly concrete and contentious. Addressing these issues requires interdisciplinary cooperation and reflective exchange between scientific analysis, planning, and political practice. As a social research infrastructure of the Leibniz Association, the ARL provides the permanent structures, procedures and formats necessary for cooperative work across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. As an academy of elected scientists, the ARL is also a self-organising, professionally diverse network that generates original knowledge on spatial development, planning and policy issues through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Klee
Head of the Central Department / Deputy Secretary General of the ARL
Phone +49 511 34842-39
andreas.klee@arl-net.de
Briesen, D.; Strubelt, W. (eds.) (2026): A Future for the European Patchwork.
Cohesion through Spatial Planning since 1990. Frankfurt/New York.
https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/a_future_for_the_europe... (Directly to the publisher's website)
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