Daniel GallandAalborg University · Department of Development and Planning
Daniel Galland
PhD
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August 2017 - July 2020
December 2014 - August 2017
Aalborg University
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- Professor (Associate)
July 2013 - January 2014
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This article contributes to the debate about ideologically motivated planning reforms. It aims to advance the debate by exploring how change is legitimised through forms of rhetorical persuasion. It shows how political ideologies become embedded in planning policies and practices through strategies of legitimation aimed at justifying specific ideas...
This paper starts from the premise that regional planning as it is known is now defunct and something that we need to get used to. Identifying those disruptive elements that have undermined traditional forms of institutionalized regional planning, it is argued that contemporary planning debates are too obsessed with the institutional planning frame...
Planning is facing powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually, practically – in ways arguably not seen before. In this editorial we examine whether we have witnessed the withering away of regional planning. Our argument is that planning remains integral to the future of regional studies, but not in the form it once took. We argue for new...
Planning Regional Futures is an intellectual call to engage planners to critically explore what planning is, and should be, in how cities and regions are planned.
This is in a context where planning is seen to face powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually and practically – in ways arguably not seen before: planning is no longer solely...
plaNext–Next Generation Planning, Planning Theories from the Global South, Volume 11, July 2021
The role of national and international associations of planning schools in the promotion of planning education has attracted increasing interest globally over the past few years. This paper provides a history concerning the involvement of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) in planning education and discusses recent deliberation...
The need for effective metropolitan governance and planning has never been so great. In this chapter, we argue that despite an inspiring debate on the issues of metropolitan change, planning and governance, contributions which develop and operationalise broader frameworks for analysis are relatively scarce. Approaching metropolitan regions and metr...
Planning at the national level as a field of knowledge and research has received very limited attention let alone as a public policy domain influencing the delivery of planning education. This chapter delves into the origins and evolving conceptions of planning at the national level with a focus on liberal capitalist nation-states and examines how...
The planning profession in each country is subject to specific national and local legal frameworks; yet cities, nations, and regions are highly interdependent. International comparative planning thus has the potential to broaden students’ understanding of planning contexts and interdependency, but courses that incorporate international comparisons...
ESPON DIGIPLAN will provide an overview on digitalization of plan data in 15 European countries and insight information from case studies in 6 countries. In this inception report, we present key concepts and selected findings from literature. We present the rational, data collection approach, the selection of cases, and present ideas for thematic p...
This chapter examines the historical evolution and emerging trends and priorities of metropolitan planning through an analysis concerning its substance and processes. The point of departure is an analysis of the evolving driving forces that influence the adoption and articulation of different planning conceptions and planning styles in catering to...
The relentless pace of urban change in globalisation poses fundamental questions about how to best plan and govern 21st-century metropolitan regions. The problem for metropolitan regions, especially those with policy and decision-making responsibilities, is a growing recognition that these spaces are typically reliant on inadequate urban-economic i...
This concluding chapter argues for a new role of planning in shaping metropolitan futures and reflects on the value of the book’s thematic-temporal-phronetic (TTP) framework—a meso-level approach to better understand the dynamics of contemporary metropolitan change. We begin by revealing the extent to which institutions, policies, spatial imaginari...
This chapter focuses on the drivers of change affecting metropolitan cities and anal-yses the current agencies and mechanisms to achieve future planning of places. It constructs a typology of the changing role and context of planning affected by wider political and global forces, and sets out the differences between formalised metropolitan planning...
This chapter examines governance rescaling processes in the context of Danish spatial planning over the past decade. It contends that the spatial planning system in Denmark has the capacity to redefine and reinterpret conventional territorial scales through the parallel adoption and articulation of legal planning instruments and spatial planning st...
This chapter addresses the changing roles of actors in metropolitan planning considering generations of metropolitan reforms where planning strategies and policies are shaped by agents with oftentimes conflicting conceptions and agendas about metropolitan planning. We identify and examine the transformation of key metropolitan planning actors in re...
The evolution of metropolitan space is characterised by disjointed planning histories. Nonetheless we seem to believe in strong and univocuous conceptual representations of metropolitan futures in decisions and plans. In this paper we will analyse the specificities of two metropolitan evolutions. Greater Copenhagen has been blessed with a strong, a...
Since Regional Studies was founded in 1967, planning and planners have been central to understanding cities and regions. In the first ever issue of the journal the opening four papers all had “regional plan” or “regional planning” in their title. Yet as Regional Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017 planning is facing powerful challenges...
Spatial consciousness may refer to individual or collective awareness about real-world spatial phenomena and processes.This entry begins by framing the “spatial” while linking it with the realm of the “conscious” by proposing a conceptual articulation that differs between three distinct but interrelated perspectives on consciousness in relation to...
This entry synthesizes the official story of the history and evolution of modern urban planning with an emphasis on the domain's representative milestones. It begins by addressing distinctive urban planning notions conceived primarily as urban design during the first half of the twentieth century, and then moves on to highlight different waves of p...
In 1998, Tony Blair, as British Prime Minister, declared that ideology was dead; all that counted in government was that policies should work (Independent 1998). His declaration of a post-ideological era was provocative but not entirely new. The ‘end of ideology’ thesis originated with neoconservatives (Bell 1960) who saw the rise of liberal capita...
The aim of this paper is to develop an understanding about contemporary processes of metropolitan change and prospective approaches to planning and governing metropolitan regions. The persistent pace of metropolitan growth and change in “the metropolitan century” poses essential questions about the current reorientations and prospective performance...
In 1998, Tony Blair, as British Prime Minister, declared that ideology was dead; all that counted in government was that policies should work. His declaration of a post-ideological era was provocative but not entirely new. The ‘end of ideology’ thesis originated with neoconservatives who saw the rise of liberal capitalism as the dawn of a political...
This special issue takes a point of departure on the “Southern turn in planning” with an emphasis on Latin America and seeks to contribute to the current wave of debates around international comparative planning. Its objective is to target the “state of the art” of planning interventions as well as contemporary forms of planning knowledge and acade...
The conclusion to this special issue on the state of planning in Latin America provides a series of critical reflections based on the cross-comparative analysis of its seven contributions. Rather than summarising the results embedded in the survey, we allude to the thematic questions posed in the introduction by responding with thought-provoking, a...
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This article sets out to propose and apply a qualitative framework for thinking about how to analyse and compare metropolitan spatial plans in a milieu of divergent spatial planning traditions and discretionary planning practices. In doing so, the article reviews and develops an understanding concerning the institutional context, instrumental conte...
This paper argues that spatial planning systems tend to redefine and reinterpret conventional territorial scales through the dual adoption and articulation of legal instru- ments and spatial strategies at different levels of planning administration. In depicting such redefinition, this paper delves into the cases of Denmark and Catalonia through an...
This paper argues that comprehensive land-use management as a policy domain should be understood on the basis of the interrelationship between three fundamental sets of policy tools, namely spatial planning, integrated land-use management and land administration systems. There is wide perception amongst planners, policy-makers, land managers and su...
https://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/2509_Planning-for-States-and-Nation-States-in-the-U-S--and-Europe
Land-use conflicts, noise and health problems, local air pollution, decreased urban quality and affected liveability are considered amongst the core impacts and consequences associated with global airports, all of which have largely been individually documented. Through a case study of Mexico City International Airport, this article argues that a m...
The people-to-land relationship is dynamic and changes over time in response to cultural, social and economic development. Land policies, institutions and land administration systems are key tools aimed at governing this relationship. Such tools will normally include the means for allocating and controlling rights, restrictions and responsibilities...
Este articulo plantea que los procesos de rehabilitacion urbana en contextos escandinavos consisten tanto en desarrollos regidos por planes como en desarrollos gobernados por mercados. Tomando como ejemplo la regeneracion de muelles urbanos, se argumenta que dichos procesos de planificacion son el resultado de la interaccion de diversos factores, e...
This paper argues that a planning system that allows its policies and practices to gradually lose spatial consciousness and spatial coordination capacities within and across different levels of planning administration is less likely to make national and regional plans and strategies matter or have a say in future spatial development processes. The...
How is regional planning transformed in increasingly changing socioeconomic and political contexts? How are regional planning policies and practices ultimately shaped and why? With this paper, the author proposes and applies an analytical model based on notions of state theory, state spatial selectivity, new planning spaces, and policy discourses t...
Spatial planning commonly adopts a diversity of functions and logics in contributing to the handling of growth and development. Being influenced by an array of contextual driving forces that result in specific institutional practices and policy agendas, spatial planning seems to be constantly reoriented in terms of its purposes and reasoning. This...
This paper delves into the different styles and roles that planning adopts in contemporary waterfront redevelopment. Traditionally, waterfront redevelopment practices have consisted of an array of plan-led and market-driven planning styles upon which the derelict areas of post-industrial cities have been transformed. Typical examples from North Ame...
This paper argues that regulatory processes and outcomes in the context of a new industry could respond to mechanisms and factors that shape governmental agendas, illustrating how policy can behave reactively rather than in a precautionary manner. In the case of salmon aquaculture, an emerging industry characterized by risks, uncertainties, exponen...
Projects
Projects (16)
CfP - Special Issue with an emphasis on the interfaces and boundaries of strategic spatial planning and urban sustainable transitions aimed at establishing links between transition theories, urban planning theories, governance approaches, urban planning policy styles and innovative examples from practice.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/urban_sus_trans#
Frank Othengrafen & Daniel Galland (Eds)
LANDTIME is a Collaborative and Knowledge-building Project, funded by The Research Council of Norway, to meet societal challenges.
LANDTIME’s primary objective is to investigate the Norwegian planning system’s functional capacity to handle multiple temporalities of spatial development, hereunder its set of plans and instruments, the role of property and property rights for public planning, and related challenges in three different geographical contexts.
LANDTIME's secondary objectives are to explore the planning system from a temporality perspective, as the content of plans, temporalities of the planning processes, including transmission between plans, empirical investigations of the interplay between public spatial planning and private property and how the two systems lay out the premises for temporality management in terms of intergenerational equity and market demands.
The collaborative partners are Nordland County Council, City of Bergen, Indre Østfold Municipality and the Norwegian Courts’ Administration.
https://www.espon.eu/digiplan
In the past decade, many European countries have taken significant steps to set up digital plan registers and the digitalization of spatial planning processes. Digital plan data opens a range of new possibilities to get insights into planning practice and the role of planning for spatial change over time. However, evidence on the possibilities offered by digital plan data and their actual use is missing. At the same time, digitalization of plan data can be assumed to have considerable impact on planning practice.
ESPON DIGIPLAN will analyse approaches across different, national planning systems including methods for evaluation with plan data and how planning is actually represented in such data.
ESPON DIGIPLAN will provide an overview on digitalization of plan data in 15 ESPON countries and insight information from case studies in 6 countries, including the stakeholder countries of this analysis; Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland.
