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FAMP BRAN Florina, IOAN Ildiko and RADULESCU Carmen Valentina
CCASP EUROPEAN POLICIES WITH IMPACT ON TERRITORIAL PLANNING

Territorial planning has long ranging effects and its change occur gradually or not at all unless an authority

based regime is enforced. It is more likely that other changes needed in the pursuit of European goals
will be brought to life by adapting policy measures to the opportunities and restrains of each Member
State’s territorial planning model. This raises the question of how the territorial impact could be enhanced

in order to boost the effectiveness of European policies in various sectors. By examining some of these
policies and their territorial impact we are aiming to highlight relevant aspects for the improvement of
policy making.

2. TYPOLOGY OF EUROPEAN MODELS OF TERRITORIAL PLANNING

Territorial processes are determined by the interaction between investors and population who balances

job and residential areas. In the current economic setting of the EU the logic of the free market leads to
urban expansion that threatens the functionality of natural systems with a potential harmful impact on long

term wellbeing. Therefore territorial planning is an issue of public interest that justifies public intervention
and is recognized as such by the Member States.

Territorial planning is also considered an issue of European relevance and great effort was invested in

developing a model that allows the start of a process of convergence. This effort was commenced by an PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11 TH ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” 30 th – 31 st October 2015 Bucharest
assessment of the existing models that concerned common elements and their advantages and restrains
against the goals of the European policies. Further, building on the results of this assessment it was
developed a typology of European territorial planning models in order to substantiate institutional changes

that might be necessary.

Despite the small size of the European territory, compared with other continents, and shifting national
boundaries, national territorial planning evolved independently resulting in a variety of approaches. For

their analysis there were proposed not less than four typologies developed using the following criteria:
family of nations (Newman and Thornley, 1996); traditions of territorial planning (Faludi, 2004); macro-

regional perspective; and hyper-cube of territorial planning based on four dimensions.

The typology based on family of nations comprises four models – British, Napoleonic, German, and
Scandinavian, distributed as it is presented in figure 1.

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