TRACK 11: Planning across Borders: Transnational, International and Intergovernmental Planning and Spatial Management

Co-chairs: Stefanie Dühr, Wil Zonneveld

Spatial planning initiatives for functional regions that stretch across political and administrative boundaries are often challenged by the ‘boundedness’ of how spatial planning is conceived and organised. The political, administrative, cultural or ethnical territoriality is a real challenge for trans-boundary planning in a world of multi-scale organizations and large-scale spatial development issues. In this track, we invite papers discussing theories and practices of trans-boundary planning in relation to the agreement on agendas for cooperation, the organisation of trans-boundary spatial planning processes, and questions over their democratic accountability. Questions which we would like to discuss in this track include the following: How can territorial governance and shared responsibility be organised for planning of flows crossing political borders? How do ideas and discourses spread through collaborative planning processes, and do they influence planning approaches in the involved regions? What is the role of planning cultures in collaborative planning processes across political borders? How can the complexity of spatial planning issues combined with the complexity of intergovernmental planning across borders be managed? What skills and qualities are needed for planners to deal with these tasks?