Contradictory rescaling: confronting state restructuring and the building of new spatial policies

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2010

Authors

Oliveira, C. (Author) FEUP; Breda-Vázquez, I. (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: European Urban and Regional Studies

Vol. 17 No. 4

Pages: 401-415

ISSN: 0969-7764

Publisher: SAGE

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Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Other social sciences

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-2CC

DOI: 10.1177/0969776409356213

Abstract (EN): The paper explores the tensions between state and spatial policy rescaling processes. It argues that the different timescales of their dynamics may produce significant barriers to the transformative goals of spatial policy. Supported by evidence of the gradualist nature of state restructuring in Portugal and the rescaling of a new spatial policy instrument, the paper illustrates and discusses the transformative difficulties in issues such as territorial integration, strategic negotiation at local level, inter-municipal cooperation and new forms of multi-level, multi-sectoral and state-society networking. Cross-national comparison with other Southern European countries allows conclusions to be drawn with regard to a dynamic approach to context-dependent phenomena and to the relevance of a timescale approach to state and spatial policy rescaling processes.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific