Large Urban Developments as Non-Planning Products: Conflicts and Threats for Spatial Planning

Abstract: The article approaches different concepts of Large Urban Developments (LUDs) as products of the notion of a “spatial fix” (Harvey, 2001), which explains why built or natural environments can be deployed in the process of creating opportunities for new investments. Greece and Cyprus are two countries in the south of the European Union that underwent delayed urbanisation and significant land fragmentation in the form of small size private ownerships and with limited experience in comprehensive development. Greece has adopted a well-structured but complex spatial planning system, bureaucratic with limited effectiveness, adaptability or flexibility of delivery processes. On the other hand, Cyprus has a flexible but centralized system, effective in processing change but problematic in regulating quality in the built environment. Both countries recently experienced major financial crises. In the early 2010s, both governments promoted, as part of an economic recovery policy, extensive rea

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Urban Planning ; 4 (2019) 4 ; 31-42

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wer)
SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
(wann)
2019
Urheber
Ioannou, Byron
Spiliopoulou, Georgia
Nicolaou, Lora
Serraos, Konstantinos

DOI
10.17645/up.v4i4.2266
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021020515320397464597
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Ioannou, Byron
  • Spiliopoulou, Georgia
  • Nicolaou, Lora
  • Serraos, Konstantinos
  • SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository

Entstanden

  • 2019

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