TY - JOUR PY - 2017// TI - The participating government: shifting boundaries in collaborative spatial planning of urban regions JO - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space A1 - Westerink, Judith A1 - Kempenaar, Annet A1 - van Lierop, Marjo A1 - Groot, Stefan A1 - van der Valk, Arnold A1 - van den Brink, Adri SP - 147 EP - 168 VL - 35 IS - 1 N2 - This article identifies two alternative collaborative spatial planning discourses: a leading government with societal participation and self-governance by societal actors with government participation. It shows how the boundary between the roles of governments and societal actors in collaboration discourses is shifting, but also how both collaborative planning discourses exist alongside each other in two Dutch urban regions: Eindhoven Region and Parkstad Limburg. In both regions, these alternative discourses on role division in collaborative planning are similar, even though Eindhoven is a growing region in which the local and regional governments collaborate intensively with companies, and Parkstad Limburg is a shrinking region that more actively involves citizens. The article concludes with reflections on the need to manage boundaries in collaborative planning.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 2399-6544 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263774X16646770 ID - ref1 ER -