1st Edition

Impacts of European Territorial Policies in the Baltic States

Edited By Garri Raagmaa, Dominic Stead Copyright 2015
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Urban and regional development in the Baltic States and other Central and Eastern European countries has experienced rapid changes since their re-independence at the beginning of the 1990s. Meanwhile, urban and regional planning institutions and organizational cultures in the Baltic States have only changed rather incrementally, despite various national and European pressures for reform. As a... Read more

1. Spatial Planning in the Baltic States: Impacts of European Policies  Garri Raagmaa and Dominic Stead

2. European Integration and Spatial Rescaling in the Baltic Region: Soft Spaces, Soft Planning and Soft Security  Dominic Stead

3. New Spatial Patterns and Territorial–Administrative Structures in the European Union: Reflections on Eastern Europe  Jussi Sakari Jauhiainen

4. The Engagement of Territorial Knowledge Communities with European Spatial Planning and the Territorial Cohesion Debate: A Baltic Perspective  Neil Adams, Giancarlo Cotella and Richard Nunes

5. From Conditionality to Europeanization in Central and Eastern Europe: Administrative Performance and Capacity in Cohesion Policy  John Bachtler, Carlos Mendez and Hildegard Oraže

6. Urban–Rural Interactions in Latvian Changing Policy and Practice Context  Laila Kūle

7. Europeanization and De-Europeanization of Estonian Regional Policy  Garri Raagmaa, Tarmo Kalvet and Ragne Kasesalu

8. Urban Policies for the Creative Industries: A European Comparison  Külliki Tafel-Viia, Andres Viia, Erik Terk and Silja Lassur

Biography

Garri Raagmaa is Associate Professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published three books and over sixty articles about regional planning and development, regional innovation, regional identity and leadership issues.

Dominic Stead is Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He has researched and published widely on a range of issues related to urban and regional governance, including more than fifty journal articles, twenty-five book chapters and three edited books.