Innovation in management and governance of urban areas. Three intermediate scale plans

PABLO ELINBAUM

Aalborg

Workshop; II Postgraduate workshop of the ESPON/ENECON project, ?Integrated Territorial Management and Governance?.; 2014

University of Aalborg - ESPON

Local jurisdictions show explicit contradictions regarding current territorial dynamics. New urban patterns are more related to the concept of 'urban area' and the fluctuating sub-regional scale. Thus, the need to jointly address local and regional phenomena challenges conventional planning systems and the subsidiarity of historical administrative structures. Through a multiple case study of three recent plurimunicipal plans, the aim of this paper is to evidence the innovation and specificity of recent planning for urban areas. The paper argue that "intermediate design" and governance tools allow rearranging a meaningful scale for "the urban", overcoming tacit and static levels of planning systems.