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A Preliminary Critique of the Best and Good Practices Approach in European Spatial Planning and Policy-making

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  • Luciano Vettoretto

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“Good practices” are found everywhere, particularly in European policies. They are usually taken for granted as familiar events in daily life. For actors involved in policy-making, it seems quite natural to produce, disseminate and use repertoires of good practices. This article discusses this phenomenon, arguing that “good practices” are one of the main tools in Europeanization processes, particularly for the European idea of “good governance”. Analyses of the Interact, Interreg and Urbact programmes of production of good practice repertoires lead to an examination of a number of characteristics of “good practice”: as a kind of regulation through sense-making processes, as a standardization tool in order to compare and measure performances in different situations, as an object of self-reflection and constitution of communities of practices, as a strategic representation and as an advocacy device.

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  • Luciano Vettoretto, 2009. "A Preliminary Critique of the Best and Good Practices Approach in European Spatial Planning and Policy-making," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(7), pages 1067-1083, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:17:y:2009:i:7:p:1067-1083
    DOI: 10.1080/09654310902949620
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    3. Dorina Pojani & Dominic Stead, 2015. "Going Dutch? The export of sustainable land-use and transport planning concepts from the Netherlands," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 52(9), pages 1558-1576, July.
    4. Natalie Papanastasiou, 2024. "The politics of generating best practice knowledge: Epistemic practice and rendering space technical in a European Commission working group on education policy," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 42(2), pages 179-197, March.
    5. Susan Moore, 2013. "What’s Wrong with Best Practice? Questioning the Typification of New Urbanism," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(11), pages 2371-2387, August.
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