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Reinventing Strategic Planning in Post-socialist Cities: Experiences from Sofia

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  • Sasha Tsenkova

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Recent planning experiences in post-socialist cities indicate a growing interest in strategic spatial planning. In their search for new planning paradigms, municipalities in transition countries have embraced strategic planning as a way to involve the business community and the broader constituency in defining a vision for the future of cities. More importantly, this more proactive approach has created an opportunity for mobilization of funds and political support for urban development thus bridging the resource gap under a regime of fiscal austerity. Drawing on the recent experience of Sofia with strategic spatial planning, the paper outlines the essential characteristics of the process (plan-making) and the product (strategic plan). The research establishes clear links between the process of strategy development, its institutional framework and the hierarchical structure of goals, objectives and actions. It is argued that strategic spatial planning is an efficient tool to manage post-socialist cities.

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  • Sasha Tsenkova, 2007. "Reinventing Strategic Planning in Post-socialist Cities: Experiences from Sofia," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(3), pages 295-317, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:15:y:2007:i:3:p:295-317
    DOI: 10.1080/09654310601017133
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    2. Gavriilidis, Gaby & Metaxas, Theodore, 2017. "Strategic planning and city/regional development: Review, analysis, critique and applications for Greece," MPRA Paper 81131, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. KubešCDFMR Jan, 2013. "European post-socialist cities and their near hinterland in intra-urban geography literature," Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, Sciendo, vol. 19(19), pages 19-43, June.
    4. Theodore Metaxas & Laura Juarez & Gaby Gavriilidis, 2021. "Planning and Marketing the City for Sustainability: The Madrid Nuevo Norte Project," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-22, February.

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