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Shaping Regional Futures

Designing and Visioning in Governance Rescaling

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Editors:
  1. Valeria Lingua

    1. Department of Architecture (DIDA), Regional Design Lab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  2. Verena Balz

    1. Department of Urbanism, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  • Combines the existing literature on spatial planning, governance and governance-rescaling with reflection on regional design practices
  • Uses a “designed” and “illustrated” format to provide evidence of academic debate in planning practices and policies
  • Richly illustrated, offering a better understanding of the output of visioning practices in strategic and spatial planning

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Verena Balz, Valeria Lingua
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Terms of Reference

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Regional Designing and Visioning in Planning Rescaling: An Interactive Governance Perspective

      • Valeria Lingua
      Pages 13-25

    3. The Institutionalisation of a Creative Practice: Changing Roles of Regional Design in Dutch National Planning

      • Verena Balz, Wil Zonneveld
      Pages 27-42

    4. The Transformative Capacity of Regional Design

      • Lukas Gilliard, Fabian Wenner, Alain Thierstein, Nadia Alaily-Mattar
      Pages 43-58

    5. The Connection Between Regional Designing and Spatial Planning

      • Annet Kempenaar
      Pages 59-69
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About this book

This book discusses the role of regional design and visioning in the formation of regional territorial governance to offer a better understanding of (1) how a recognition of spatial dynamics and the visualization of spatial futures informs, and is informed by, planning frameworks and (2) how such design processes inform co-operation and collaboration on planning in metropolitan regions. It gathers theoretical reflections on these topics, and illustrates them by means of practical experiences in several European countries. Innovatively associating ideas with knowledge, it appeals to anyone with an interest in planning experiments in a post-regulative era. It aims at an increased understanding of how practices, engaged with the imagination of possible futures, support the creation of institutional capacity for strategic spatial planning at regional scales.

Reviews

“The book’s great strength lies in the wide variety of empirical studies as well as the helpful perspective each contribution gives to the general themes. … the book provides interesting material for a wide readership, whether scholars of planning theory or urban studies to political scientists, while it is highly recommended for future spatial planners and designers.” (Eurasien Geography and Economics, April 28, 2020) “When we hear terms such as city, city-region or region we rarely pay attention to the role of imagination in the formation, preservation and decline of these spatial imaginaries. Yet, imagination, as socio-cognitive function of our minds, enables us to generate images of a world that is no longer, or not yet, real; and of places that are not perceivable with our senses. This book presents a promising way forward for a deeper understanding of design as an imaginative and creative practice and its role in spatial planning and rescaling of governance. The book provides an excellent and diverse range of case studies from across Europe to show how the interrelationships between design, visioning, planning and governing are unfolded in practice.” (Professor Simin Davoudi, Director of Global Urban Research Unit (GURU), Newcastle University, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Architecture (DIDA), Regional Design Lab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Valeria Lingua

  • Department of Urbanism, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Verena Balz

About the editors

Valeria Lingua is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of Florence, Italy.Verena Balz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Shaping Regional Futures

  • Book Subtitle: Designing and Visioning in Governance Rescaling

  • Editors: Valeria Lingua, Verena Balz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23573-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23572-7Published: 08 November 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23575-8Published: 08 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23573-4Published: 22 October 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 263

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 81 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Governance and Government, Human Geography

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