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Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead

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This paper discusses the future challenges of strategic spatial planning in Europe in the coming decades. The paper argues that one of the core challenges for strategic spatial planning is to regain its political legitimacy. Strategic spatial planning has increasingly lost its political support after the global financial crisis in 2007–2008 and a decade of austerity policies. Strategic spatial planning must make itself relevant again by addressing the most prominent challenges for contemporary urban areas, such as the current energy crisis. The energy crisis has demonstrated the need for an even faster transition to renewable energy sources, which requires large areas for energy infrastructures on land. The paper argues that strategic spatial planning could play an important future role in supporting the sustainable energy transition by identifying appropriate spaces of production and building support for such production facilities among local communities.

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  • Kristian Olesen, 2023. "Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(11), pages 2318-2326, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:31:y:2023:i:11:p:2318-2326
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2023.2231500
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