L'"Estratègia territorial europea" : una anàlisi des d'una perspectiva anglesa

Whilst the European Union does not have an explicit competence to deal with spatial planning matters, many of its policies and programmes are having a considerable impact on the practice of planning at all levels of governance within and between member states (Wilkinson et al 1998). In Modernising Plannin, the Labour Government explicitly acknowledged the fact that the UK should take much more cognisance of the European dimension in the development of spatial planning strategies (Tewdr-Jones, 1998). In this paper we wish to focus on some of the implications of the Europeanisation of strategic spatial activities at the regional scale. Increasingly the European Spatial Development Perspective, an informal intergovernmental document with no formal status, is having a considerable impact on the development of various spatial planning documents. This paper explores how and why these new European influences are shaping strategic regional thinking in the English context.