Territorial Cohesion Discourses: Hegemonic Strategic Concepts in European Spatial Planning (original) (raw)

Planning Theory & Practice, 2010

Abstract

The paper 1 reflects on the EU objective of territorial cohesion, exploring its role as a catalytic concept around which several (spatial and non-spatial) discourses and policy practices have been generated in European Spatial Planning. The assumption is that these discourses act as cultural constructions which define the strategic selectivity of EU institutions and strategically orientate the selective calculation of stakeholders' behaviour and their policy-making activities. The paper further explores the contents of spatial ...

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