Making European Space: Mobility, Power and Territorial Identity

by Richardson; Tim

• ISBN13: 9780415291927
• ISBN10: 0415291925
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Making European Spacecrystallizes and critically examines the key policy ideas emerging in the new field of European spatial planning, and explores the arguments surrounding policy themes such as polycentric development, sustainability, mobility and peripherally. It develops a theoretically informed critique based on discourse analysis and cultural sociology of space. The book is divided into four general sections. The first section, "Theoretical Framework", contains a general introduction to the themes, followed by two theoretical chapters on respectively European integration and the approach used for analyzing spatial policy discourses. "Representations of Space" contains the empirical analysis of the cases. This analysis is thematic and covers the language and images representing the analyzed cases which are drawn widely from the emerging literature on the implementation of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) as well as the authors' own empirical research. "Spatial Practices"deals with the practices, institutions, governance structures and questions of implementation relating to these policy fields. In the final section, "Power, Rationalities and Knowledge", the underlying rationalities of these spatial policy discourses are presented and wider implications for European integration are discussed.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Part One: Introducing the Construction Sites of European Space	1	(68)
1 Introduction	2	(12)
2 European integration and the emergence of European spatial policy	14	(27)
3 Linking discourse and space	41	(28)
Part Two: Analysing the Discourse of Monotopia	69	(56)
4 Languages of European space	70	(30)
5 Being on the map: the new iconographies of power over European space	100	(25)
Part Three: Spatial Practices	125	(88)
6 Shaping a pan-European spatial planning system?	126	(27)
7 Creating new knowledges of Europe	153	(26)
8 The Europeanisation of spatial planning	179	(34)
Part Four: Power, Rationalities and Knowledge	213	(44)
9 A Europe of flows: creating the preconditions for monotopia	214	(11)
10 Dimensions of monotopia: exploring the 'magic triangle'	225	(12)
11 Conclusion: making European space?	237	(20)
Annex 1. Abbreviations	257	(1)
Annex 2. Interviewees and other information sources	258	(6)
Notes 261 References	264	(17)
Index	281