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

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2010

Autores

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

Revista

Título: European Urban and Regional Studies

Vol. 17 Nº 4

Páginas: 401-415

ISSN: 0969-7764

Editora: SAGE

Indexação

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Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências sociais > Outras ciências sociais

CORDIS: Ciências Tecnológicas

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: 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.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica