Spatial planning refers to the methods used by the public sector to influence the distribution of people and activities in spaces of various scales. Spatial planning includes all levels of land use planning including urban planning, regional planning, national spatial plans, and in the European Union international levels. Accordingly to IEEE, a method is a process or procedure used in the engineering of a product or performing a service. ... < [[[[math>Insert formula here</math>The public sector is that part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the [[government </math></math></math></math> Direct administration funded through taxation; the delivering organisation generally has no specific requirement to meet commercial... Land use planning is the term used for a branch of public policy which encompasses various disciplines which seek to order and regulate the use of land in an efficient way. ... Urban planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest towns to the worlds largest cities. ... Regional planning is a branch of land use planning and deals with the efficient placement of land use activities, infrastructure and settlement growth across a significantly larger area of land than an individual city or town. ... link titleThe word international can mean: Between nations or encompassing several nations. ...

There are numerous definitions of spatial planning. One of the earliest definitions comes from the European Regional/Spatial Planning Charter (often called the 'Torremolinos Charter'), adopted in 1983 by the European Conference of Ministers responsible for Regional Planning (CEMAT): "Regional/spatial planning gives geographical expression to the economic, social, cultural and ecological policies of society. It is at the same time a scientific discipline, an administrative technique and a policy developed as an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach directed towards a balanced regional development and the physical organisation of space according to an overall strategy."

European Spatial Planning

In 1999, a document called the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) was signed by the ministers responsible for regional planning in the EU member states. Although the ESDP has no binding status, and the European Union has no formal authority for spatial planning, the ESDP has influenced spatial planning policy in European regions and member states, and placed the coordination of EU sectoral policies on the political agenda. The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) is a document approved by the Informal Council of Ministers of Spatial Planning of European Commission in Potsdam in 1999. ...

At the European level, the term territorial cohesion is becoming more widely used and is for example mentioned in the draft EU Treaty (Constitution) as a shared competency of the European Union. The term was defined in a "scoping document" in Rotterdam in late 2004 and will be elaborated further using empirical data from the ESPON programme in a document entitled The Territorial State and Perspectives of the European Union which will be presented in Leipzig in May 2007.

See also

• Architecture
• European Spatial Development Perspective
• ESPRID
• Geography
• Landscape Architecture
• Land use planning
• Urban planning
• Regional planning
• Principles of Intelligent Urbanism

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References

• Richard H. Williams, European union spatial policy and planning, London Chapman 1996. ISBN 978-1853963056
• Andreas Faludi, Bas Waterhout, The Making of the European Spatial Development Perspective, London Routledge 2002. ISBN 978-0415272643
• Klaus R. Kunzmann, European planning perspectives - Unconditional Surrender: The Gradual Demise of European Diversity in Planning. Key note paper at 18th AESOP Congress in Grenoble, France. July 2004

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External links

• CEMAT - European Conference of Ministers responsible for Regional Planning
• CEMAT Guiding Principles for Sustainable Spatial Development of the European Continent
• EJSD - European Journal of Spatial Development
• ESPON - European Spatial Planning Observation Network
• Planum - The European Journal of Planning
• VASAB - Baltic Sea Region Spatial Planning Initiative VASAB