Regional and Urban Observatories in Europe: Passive Entities or Fully Operating Active Planning Instruments?

Authors

  • Luis Miguel Valenzuela Montes
  • Julio Alberto Soria Lara

Keywords:

Observatorio, planificación, desarrollo territorial, gobernanza, Europa

Abstract

As over the last 20 years an important number of spatial and urban observatories (OTU´s) have been
created in Europe in keeping with European spatial policy mandates and these are busily attempting to
offer a coherent image of the continent’s complex spatial reality, the paper considers them to be of special
interest for study from the perspective of different planning models and this at different spatial levels.
This paper is focused on analyzing the incidence of OTU´s on planning. To this purpose four incidence
levels were designed to classify the OTU´s and thus study their operative or passive role in the
planning process. This planning role is now here seen to run from a mere putting together of spatial
information through to a full involvement in the decision-making process.
Finally and in the light of the fi ndings thus obtained, a discussion is suggested as to the factors
conducive to a likely success in the setting up of this sort of observatories if these are indeed to
offer a genuine operative contribution to EU planning.

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Published

2011-06-26

How to Cite

Valenzuela Montes, L. M., & Soria Lara, J. A. (2011). Regional and Urban Observatories in Europe: Passive Entities or Fully Operating Active Planning Instruments?. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 43(168), 243–260. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/76051

Issue

Vol. XLIII, núm. 168 (2011)

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2011 Luis Miguel Valenzuela Montes, Julio Alberto Soria Lara

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