Smith, SO 2007, 'Strategic planning as region building on the eastern periphery of the EU' , European Planning Studies, 15 (8) , pp. 1007-1025.
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This article describes how region-building is performed by four strategic planning initiatives in north-eastern Slovakia, highlighting a tension between balanced and concentrated development perspectives in Slovak regional policy. The plans are read as records of an institutionalizing process, the product of which is the creation of a lasting collaborative relationship between actors. If strategic planning could fulfil a mobilizing and integrating function in eastern Slovakia, it would constitute a significant contribution to the successful negotiation of social and economic transformations associated with post-communist structural change and European Union (EU) accession. Region-building is complicated by an over-emphasis on endogenous perspectives among local actors, hindering vertical integration, and an indeterminacy about the scale at which such an integration is best performed.
Item Type: | Article |
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Themes: | Subjects / Themes > H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions Subjects / Themes > D History General and Old World > DJ Netherlands (Holland) > DJK Eastern Europe Subjects / Themes > H Social Sciences > HM Sociology Memory, Text and Place Subjects outside of the University Themes |
Schools: | Schools > School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences |
Journal or Publication Title: | European Planning Studies |
Publisher: | Routledge Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
ISSN: | 09654313 |
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Depositing User: | H Kenna |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2009 16:13 |
Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2021 22:04 |
URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/1080 |
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