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Place-based development and spatial justice

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  • Sabine Weck
  • Ali Madanipour
  • Peter Schmitt

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Within EU cohesion policy, a place-based approach is expected to promote a strategic shift towards more place-sensitive, cross-sectoral and socially inclusive development. These expectations are underlined in the new Territorial Agenda 2030, which highlights that a place-based approach is key to territorial cohesion and to overall efforts towards a just Europe. Drawing on findings from the Horizon 2020 project RELOCAL – Resituating the local in cohesion and territorial development – this special issue explores the relations between place-based development and spatial justice. It addresses the complex challenges of place-based interventions, such as the critical role of the national policy environment in explaining variegated outcomes, enabling place-based agency in peripheralised regions, and assessing impacts. In this editorial, we provide an introductory discussion of the relations between place-based development and spatial justice, as well as brief introductions to the nine papers. We argue that there are a number of distinctive locally and nationally anchored mechanisms and inhibitors at play, which academics, and particularly planning professionals and policy-makers, need to be aware of in working towards a just Europe. Hence, place-based interventions are a valuable contribution to the territorial cohesion approach of the EU, but in the quest for spatial justice they cannot replace a redistributive territorial cohesion policy.

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  • Sabine Weck & Ali Madanipour & Peter Schmitt, 2022. "Place-based development and spatial justice," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(5), pages 791-806, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:30:y:2022:i:5:p:791-806
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2021.1928038
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    1. Papamichail, Theodora & Perić, Ana, 2023. "Action-oriented planning methods as a tool for improving regional governance in Switzerland: Evidence from the Sisslerfeld area," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
    2. Carter, Isabelle & MacKillop, Eleanor, 2023. "Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 119630, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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