Lecture 4

Question 1

What influences spatial planning practices overall?

Answer 1

The structural parts of a planning system, the tools it uses, the topics it focuses on, and the goals and actions related to how land is used.

Question 2

Why is a focus on specific actor constellations necessary in planning?

Answer 2

It shows who’s involved, who’s left out, and how they’re affected, including their interests, positions, resources, and what they know that’s important for planning..

Question 3

What are the points of reflection for the politicized IAD framework?

Answer 3

• It helps investigate gaps between policy intention and outcomes
• unravels the complexity of policy-making
• bridges the gap between institutional analysis framework and power-centered approaches
• provides an analytical foundation for designing policy recommendations
• captures power embedded in spatial planning practices
• and emphasizes the self-reinforcing nature of institutions and discourses.

Question 4

How does the framework by Janin Rivolin define planning systems?

Answer 4

It defines planning systems as specific social constructs featuring the establishment and application of techniques of social order and cooperation directed towards allowing and ruling collective action for the use of space.

Question 5

What are the components of the framework by Janin Rivolin?

Answer 5

Structures, tools, discourses, and practices.

Question 6

What is the main aim of the policy arrangement approach by Arts et al.?

Answer 6

To grasp and study how policies become firmly established due to the interaction of those involved in implementing them, alongside social and political changes over time.

Question 7

What are the dimensions of the framework for the analysis of existing policy arrangements?

Answer 7

Actors, resources, rules of the game, and discourses.

Question 8

What are the points of reflection for the framework for the analysis of existing policy arrangements?

Answer 8

Analytical distinction of four main dimensions to picture stability and change, their interconnectedness, prescriptive and intervention-oriented capacity, and the need for more complex interaction between variables.

Question 9

what are the points of reflection for the framework by Janin Rivolin?

Answer 9

Synchronic prospect emphasizes the dynamic interplay among the four different components but hides the temporal function of the evolutionary pattern.

Diachronic prospect stresses planning as result of an evolutionary process

Evolution of a planning system is a permanent necessity to avoid ‘technological obsolescence’.

Progress is however conditioned constantly

Planning is constantly constrained by political, economic, and discursive dynamics.

The framework emphasizes the governance-planning nexus.