Title page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- European spatial planning in the 2000s -- The pillars of European spatial planning -- The Territorial Agenda -- European spatial planning: What's in a name? -- Spatial planning -- Spatial and territorial -- Planning, policy, development, cohesion -- The EU and European integration -- What is the EU? -- Theorising the process of European integration -- Current issues -- Analysing processes of institutionalisation -- The concept of institution -- Processes of institutional change -- A model of institutional change -- Self-organisation: concepts, principles and community -- External enforcement: discourse analysis -- Evaluating European spatial planning -- Europeanisation and institutionalisation -- Plan of the book -- References -- European organisations and the institutionalisation of a territorial dimension in EU policy -- Introduction -- The EU: a construct built on treaties -- The search for relevant Treaty Articles -- The EU decision-making process -- Players and their attitudes towards territorial issues -- The European Commission -- The Council of Ministers and the Informal Ministerial Meetings on Spatial Planning and Development -- The European Parliament -- The Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee -- The substance and legitimacy of a spatial approach -- What is European spatial planning about? -- The legitimacy of European spatial planning -- Lobbying for spatial planning? -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Polycentric development: What is behind it? -- Policy theory: A joint construct -- Polycentricity: the core concept in the ESDP -- Combining interests -- Polycentric development: A bridging concept -- Polycentric development being taken seriously -- Conclusion -- References -- Visions on territorial cohesion.

The debate on territorial cohesion -- The debate in the Member States -- The Treaty debate -- Towards implementing territorial cohesion -- Learning to think technically: territorial capital and indicators -- Territorial capital -- ESPON: towards territorial indicators -- Learning to think spatially: the importance of spatial visioning -- Territoriality -- Experiences with spatial visioning -- Different sorts of spatial visions -- The future of visioning -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Territorial cohesion: The underlying discourses -- A discourse analytical approach to territorial cohesion -- Storylines feeding into Territorial Cohesion -- Europe in Balance -- Coherent European policy -- Competitive Europe -- Green and Clean Europe -- Storylines compared -- Conclusions -- References -- The emerging EU Territorial cohesion agenda: The ball in the court of the member states -- Introduction -- Positioning territorial cohesion -- The Commission's Territorial Cohesion Agenda -- The member states initiative: The 'Territorial Agenda Process' -- The scoping document -- The road to Germany (2007) -- Outlook -- References -- Mixed messages: How the ESDP's concepts have been applied in INTERREG IIIB programmes, priorities and projects -- Introduction -- Application: a matter of performance -- Application of the ESDP in INTERREG III Guidelines -- Application of the ESDP in INTERREG IIIB programmes -- Developing the programme in northwest Europe -- The allocation of funding as a performance indicator -- Polycentric spatial development in programmes -- Urban-rural relationships in programmes -- Application of the ESDP in INTERREG IIIB projects -- Selecting projects in northwest Europe -- The role of the ESDP in projects in general -- Polycentric spatial development in projects -- Urban-rural relationships in projects -- Conclusions -- References.

Episodes of Europeanisation of Dutch national spatial planning -- Introduction -- The concept of Europeanisation -- 1950-1997: The international orientation of Dutch National Spatial Planning -- 1997-2004: Developing the National Spatial Strategy -- The Fifth National Spatial Planning Report -- Towards the National Spatial Strategy: De-Europeanisation -- 2005-Ongoing: The spatial impact of EU policies -- Conclusion -- References -- Institutionalising European spatial planning -- The European planning community -- Actors and their roles -- The European planning community -- Discourse coalitions -- The European planning discourse -- Conceptualising the EU territory -- Desired spatial development -- Planning principles -- Evidence-based planning -- Has planning become further institutionalised? -- Self-organisation -- Embeddedness in EU and member state politics -- Résumé -- A changing context -- The Europeanisation of planning -- Spatialising EU policies -- Unexpected help? -- A roadmap -- The Territorial Agenda way -- A grass-roots approach -- Creating a shock? -- Stamina rewarded? -- References -- Epilogue -- Samenvatting -- Curriculum Vitae.

The Institutionalisation of European Spatial Planning aims to clarify the enterprise of European spatial planning. The emphasis of the book lies on the need for a better understanding of the process of European integration in general. It particularly points at the emerging middle range theories that used concepts that were showing similarity to those that academics -those writing about planning- were accustomed to, such as networks, discourses and governance. The focus of this book is mostly on the post-European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP)- the Committee of Spatial Development - from 1999 until now. As it is collection of articles, it has a different gestation process and does not tell a story from A to Z. What this book is about, however, is merely the issue concerning the institutional capacity of the ESDP and whether this has evaporated or not. The fact that this book exists at all suggests it has not.

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