RSS 1.0European Spatial Research and Policy Volume 28 (2021) Issue 2
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Collaborative communities as a selling point? From community-driven to service-purposed coworking spaces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Coworking spaces emerged in the mid-2000s as collaborative workplaces that actively supported teleworkers and self-employed knowledge workers who shared various (work) environments to interlace themselves in supportive ... -
Book Reviews
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Farmers’ markets and community gardens in Slovakia: How do town authorities approach these phenomena?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The aim of the paper is to evaluate alternative food networks (farmers’ markets and community gardens) in Slovak towns in order to determine the views of town self-governing authorities. Data was collected through ... -
People-Powered Planning: Planning from the bottom up in a top-down system
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)This paper is concerned with spatial policy in Ireland. It adopts an historical lens to help explain why Ireland currently finds itself at the bottom of the European league table with regard to local governance. After ... -
2020 parliamentary elections in Georgia: Results and geographical peculiarities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The article aims to show the main political-geographic trends of the 2020 parliamentary elections in Georgia. The political systems of the post-Soviet counties are still imperfect and fragile. Although international observers ... -
Improving compliance of the EU Cohesion Policy via prevention measures? The case of the Polish Operational Programme ‘Technical Assistance’ 2014–2020
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The EU Cohesion Policy was observed to be marked by financial compliance problems due to a relatively high level of irregularities. This problem brings into question the issue of how to prevent such infringements of the ... -
COVID-19 aftermath and tourism innovation in Western Balkans: A commentary
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The impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on the Western Balkan Region: An erosion of EU conditionality?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The EU integration process contributes to influence the ongoing institutional changes in the Western Balkans. At the same time, the incremental inflow of Chinese capital in the region that followed the launch of the Belt ... -
Economic growth agenda: The effects of full utilisation of capital budgets among statistical planning regions in North Macedonia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)North Macedonia can improve its economic growth by addressing the infrastructure gap by at least full capital budget utilisation. The outturn/execution of capital budget expenditures is low and in relative terms decreasing. ... -
The opportunity to develop strategic spatial planning with the impulse of integrated territorial investments in Croatia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Regional development and spatial planning in Croatia are organised as parallel planning systems regulated by different legislations and coordinated by two ministries, the development of which has been strongly influenced ... -
Territorial rescaling and polycentric governance in Albania
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Territories as relational geographical constructs are in constant formation and reformation, or rescaling, which results in spatial typologies of complex governance. The voting containers of a territory are merely one ... -
Common action: Can grassroots initiatives propel territorial governance in Montenegro?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)In recent years, grassroots organising has become important in advocating for the interests of local communities in spatial development processes in the Balkans. Though differing in terms of size, focus, and method, these ... -
The Slovenian planning system 30 years later: Lessons learnt and lessons not learnt
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)After gaining independence, countries such as Slovenia put a lot of effort into adapting their legislations to new market conditions. While concentrating on legislation, they often dismissed several other factors which ... -
Territorial governance of cultural heritage through spatial planning in Albania and Kosovo
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Cultural and historical heritage is inextricably linked to territorial capital. Over the years, the recognition of its importance has increased in the political and policy discourse. This paper examines these challenges ... -
From conformance to performance? A comparative analysis of the European Union territorial policy trends in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)As several Western Balkans countries aspire to become members of the European Union (EU) in the (near) future, it is interesting to explore to what extent EU territorial trends are adopted in both the official national ... -
Foreword: Territorial governance in the Western Balkans: Multi-Scalar approaches and perspectives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Western Balkans have embarked on a complex path of transition and societal transformation, that was intended to eventually lead to their integration into the European Union. The pace ...