http://hdl.handle.net/11089/32073 2026-04-07T06:49:15Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/56004 Markets and the state and the role of local regeneration strategies: a case study of the defence sector in the UK in the 1980s Dabinet, Gordon; Dabinet, Gordon This paper reviews current practice and thinking in the UK with respect to changes occurring in the defence sector. Planned responses and interventionist measures to deal with the consequences of large scale job losses have not been adopted by the UK Government during the 1980s. However, many of the changes have been triggered or directly caused by the Government's own policies to create a free-trade and liberalised market economy. An opportunity has arisen for localities, through a growing loca! economic development function, to play a role in such readjustment. This paper examines the extent to which such !ocal responses can exercise any effective control over the future direction and impact of restructuring, and in particular address the role of the military-industrial complex, arms conversion and the Peace Dividend from this perspective. 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/56005 The challenge to develop a border region: German-Polish cooperation van de Boel, Sophia Changes in Central and Eastern Europe have an impact on regional devel-opment in border areas and on cross-national cooperation in favour of these areas. The German-Polish border area illustrates the complexity of regional (re)development, which is related to the interplay between endogenous regional forces and external influences. This paper discusses the German-Polish border area with regard to its adaptability to post-revolutionary socio-economic processes. At the same time it pays attention to the influence of local, regional and national authorities. Finally, it discusses some develop-ment opportunities on the basis of the `Oderlandplan'. We may conclude that the context for regional development in the Polish-German border region is not unfavourable. 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/56001 Rereading the sixties. Reconsidering planning as a vehicle for structural change Albrechts, Louis In the 1960s the planning discipline had a strong profile and identity. Today, after thirty years in many countries, much of this profile and professional identity has disappeared. Nevertheless important groups in society call for a clear break with existing policies. This paper reflects whether planning can be used as a vehicle to induce such change in a democratic way. It is argued that the 1960s provided some basic ideas in this respect. Criticism formulated against the often very naive way these concepts have been implemented must be acknowledged.Especially the ideas elaborated by Jantsch, Ozbekhan and de Jouvenel provide concepts that allow us to define a type of planning that is at once integrative in its approach, European in its orientation, political in its attitude towards power structures, normative in purpose, innovative in its search for solutions and entrepreneurial in scope. These concepts will be summarily dealt with and linked with an ongoing spatial planning experiment. 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/56002 National heritages and the new Europe Larkham, Peter J. This paper argues that the use of national heritage, principally as formed in the built environment, is significant in the formulation of a Europe-wide sense of belonging. National heritages have been widely manipulated in the past to serve nationalist purposes, and the long history of Europe has led to a heritage characterized by conflict implying a form of “supra-nationalism”: war, oppression, presecution, even genocide. Yet for purposes of integration, planners and economic development authorities are now marketing heritage. Which heritage and whose are important questions. Any heritage planning is an overtly political action; but it is suggested that, rather than manufacturing a new, trans-European heritage which would be patiently artificial and superficial, a trans-national regional heritage should be built up. Europe has many heritages; they are often very local; and they should be used to the best advantage in the changing socio-political climate of the next two decades. 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z