Spatial Planning and Urban Development in the New EU Member States: From Adjustment to Reinvention

by Altrock,Uwe; Peters,Deike

• ISBN13: 9780754646846
• ISBN10: 075464684X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The new EU member states have been facing a wide range of planning and urban development problems since the transition in 2004. Bringing together specially commissioned, carefully selected articles on each of the ten countries, this volume examines these problems and their relevance to the EU accession. Topics range from brownfield redevelopment in the Czech Republic, to urban sprawl in Hungary, to the upgrading and integration of marginalized Roma settlements in Eastern Slovakia to sustainable coastal management in Cyprus. The first section of the book provides an EU wide overview, written by Simon Davoudi, while the second section looks at spatial planning at the national level and the third part contains articles dealing with metropolitan and town planning. These are followed by a concluding chapter which argues that, while impending EU membership has long influenced - and sometimes improved - decision-making in the region, several key issues remain riddled with idiosyncratic problems and continue to be primarily addressed at the national or regional level.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
1 Spatial Planning and Urban Development in the New EU Member States – Between Adjustment and Reinvention	1
Uwe Altrock, Simon Güntner, Sandra Huning and Deike Peters
PART I EAST-WEST PERSPECTIVES ON SPATIAL PLANNING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE ENLARGED EU
2 Spatial Development and Territorial Cohesion in Europe	19	(12)
Klaus R. Kunzmann
3 EU Enlargement and the Challenges for Spatial Planning Systems in the New Member States	31	(8)
Simin Davoudi
4 The European Union and the European Cities: Three Phases of the European Urban Policy	39	(20)
Susanne Frank
PART II SPATIAL PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEW EU MEMBER STATES
5 Sustainable Spatial Development in Slovenia: Between Global Trends and Local Urban Problems	59	(18)
Kaliopa Dimitrovska Andrews
6 Regional Planning in Lithuania – Experiences and Challenges	77	(18)
Zigmas Daunora and Pranciškus Juškevicius
7 Trends and Problems of Contemporary Urbanization Processes in Poland	95	(18)
Piotr Lorens
8 Urban Development, Policy and Planning in the Czech Republic and Prague	113	(28)
Ludek Sýkora
9 The Third World in the First World: Development and Renewal Strategies for Rural Roma Ghettos in Slovakia	141	(22)
Jakob Hurrle
10 Urban Development in Hungary After 1990	163	(18)
Zoltán Dövényi and Zoltán Kovács
11 Cyprus, EU Accession and the Development of Tourism	181	(20)
Richard Sharpley
PART III SPECIAL ISSUES IN URBAN PLANNING IN THE NEW EU MEMBER STATES
12 The Increase of Urban Inequalities in Tallinn Does EU Accession Change Anything?	201	(24)
Sampo Ruoppila
13 Development and Planning in Latvia, the Riga Region and the City of Riga	225	(18)
Inara Marana
14 Valletta: Re-inventing the 'City of the Order' for the 21st Century	243	(16)
Conrad Thake
15 Problems of Urban Planning in Warsaw	259	(12)
Mareile Walter
16 Central Europe's Brownfields: Catalysing a Planning Response in the Czech Republic	271	(16)
Yaakov Garb and Jirina Jackson
Index	287