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Connectivity and the Periphery
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Accessibility and proximity have played and still play an important role in the development process. They enable economic development and sustain it at the same time. Together they also generate the peripherality effect. That what is outside of the &...
Unemployment perspectives – a short brief
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Unemployment. The major concern and at the same time the result of the economic crisis, as well as one of the main points to be addressed through policies targeting the reduction of regional disparities across the EU. In short: unemployment is a big...
Funding Innovation in the EU – A governance perspective
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As expected social media powered discussions give the opportunity to develop new ideas in unconventional ways. Unconventional brainstorming on Twitter and blogs has its benefits, as it combines ideas from a plethora of people and places. After such a...
Regionalization 101 – an introduction
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I live in Romania, a country which until 22 years ago was under a communist regime, and which had to drastically modify its social, institutional and administrative constructs in order to adapt the market economy and the ‘western’ style o...
The new love triangle: quality of government, institutional trust and development
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Recent weeks brought forward debates concerning governments and the quality and efficiency of their interventions and decision-making processes. While this discussion can be nuanced in many ways, my personal interest lays mainly with the basic unders...
The European Creative Class – theory and reality
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The creative class. Could be said that the term is Richard Florida‘s brain child. He put forward the theory that there is a new class in the wide pool of the workforce: the creatives. In this case, the creative class points to the multitude of...
The European Creative Class – theory and reality
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The creative class. Could be said that the term is Richard Florida‘s brain child. He put forward the theory that there is a new class in the wide pool of the workforce: the creatives. In this case, the creative class points to the multitude of...
Ultimate Guide to Online Spatial Data Sources
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Spatial planning research is somewhat a murky field of research, and data available online is sometimes hard to obtain, as you have to navigate around search engines and complicated sites. For some time now I meant to put together a list of spatial d...
Ultimate Guide to Online Spatial Data Sources
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Spatial planning research is somewhat a murky field of research, and data available online is sometimes hard to obtain, as you have to navigate around search engines and complicated sites. For some time now I meant to put together a list of spatial d...
Nations, regions, identity – a federal perspective
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This is a guest post from Horațiu Ferchiu. He is a planning professional and independent researcher with interests spanning from strategic planning, governance, and policy to politics, and federal Europe. He is currently brainstorming his future PhD...
Nations, regions, identity – a federal perspective
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This is a guest post from Horațiu Ferchiu. He is a planning professional and independent researcher with interests spanning from strategic planning, governance, and policy to politics, and federal Europe. He is currently brainstorming his future PhD...
6 reasons for mixing politics with spatial planning and development
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Politics – one of the reasons the world goes round, or is it just a result of the world going round? Not really an easy question. One thing that anyone agrees upon though, is that politics (good or bad, doesn’t really matter) can make or brak...
6 reasons for mixing politics with spatial planning and development
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Politics – one of the reasons the world goes round, or is it just a result of the world going round? Not really an easy question. One thing that anyone agrees upon though, is that politics (good or bad, doesn’t really matter) can make or brak...
European identity and common values
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Cultural values and language define two of the most important characteristics of territorially defined nations or ethnically defined groups. The recent buzz around the EU blogosphere revealed certain cultural and language issues that limit the way in...
European identity and common values
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Cultural values and language define two of the most important characteristics of territorially defined nations or ethnically defined groups. The recent buzz around the EU blogosphere revealed certain cultural and language issues that limit the way in...
Assessing EU Regional Policy: past, present, and future.
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There is probably no surprise that the recent EU enlargements that brought the membership count up to 27, have actually pinpointed some major integration challenges that affected both existing and new member states. Considering this context and the E...
Assessing EU Regional Policy: past, present, and future.
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There is probably no surprise that the recent EU enlargements that brought the membership count up to 27, have actually pinpointed some major integration challenges that affected both existing and new member states. Considering this context and the E...
What is this thing called “European spatial planning”?
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A very common arrangement of technical terms in some academic and professional circles and a very daunting one in others. European spatial planning creates intense and unending debates regarding what it actually is, and what is its purpose. A majorit...
What is this thing called “European spatial planning”?
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A very common arrangement of technical terms in some academic and professional circles and a very daunting one in others. European spatial planning creates intense and unending debates regarding what it actually is, and what is its purpose. A majorit...
European Spatial Planning Perspective. Who? What? Why?
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European Spatial Planning Perspective is a project started on the basis that spatial planning, and especially European spatial planning deserve a more focused and hands-on approach in the online publishing world. Another motivation was the debate sta...
