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  "lead": "in the City of Skopje, North Macedonia. Spatial planning is the management of space and resources through the creation and implementation of a plan restricting how space can be used and developed. Spatial planning is normally undertaken by state actors—at either the national, regional or local levels—but is sometimes undertaken by private sector actors as well. In achieving set policy aims, it usually tries to balance the competing demands upon land as a resource, mediating between the demands of the state, market, and local community. In so doing, three different mechanisms—of involving stakeholders, integrating sectoral policies and promoting development projects—mark the three schools of transformative strategy formulation, innovation action and performance in spatial planning. Discrete professional disciplines which involve spatial planning include land use, urban, regional, transport and environmental planning. Other related areas are also important, including economic and community planning, as well as maritime spatial planning. Numerous planning systems exist around the world. The form of planning largely diverges and co-evolves with societies and their governance systems. Every country, and states within those countries, have a unique planning systems that is made up by different actors, different planning perspectives and a particular institutional framework.…",
  "body": "in the City of Skopje, North Macedonia.]] Spatial planning is the management of space and resources through the creation and implementation of a plan restricting how space can be used and developed. Spatial planning is normally undertaken by state actors—at either the national, regional or local levels—but is sometimes undertaken by private sector actors as well. In achieving set policy aims, it usually tries to balance the competing demands upon land as a resource, mediating between the demands of the state, market, and local community. In so doing, three different mechanisms—of involving stakeholders, integrating sectoral policies and promoting development projects—mark the three schools of transformative strategy formulation, innovation action and performance in spatial planning. Discrete professional disciplines which involve spatial planning include land use, urban, regional, transport and environmental planning. Other related areas are also important, including economic and community planning, as well as maritime spatial planning. Numerous planning systems exist around the world. The form of planning largely diverges and co-evolves with societies and their governance systems. Every country, and states within those countries, have a unique planning systems that is made up by different actors, different planning perspectives and a particular institutional framework. Perspectives, actors and institutions change over time, influencing both the form and the impact of spatial planning. Especially in Northwestern Europe, spatial planning has evolved greatly since the late 1950s. Until the 1990s, the term ‘spatial’ was used primarily to refer to the way that planning should deal with more than simply zoning, land use planning, or the design of the physical form of cities or regions, but also should address the more complex issues of the spatial relationship of activities such as employment, homes and leisure uses. ===China=== Spatial planning in mainland China is known as territorial spatial planning. ==== European-wide 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. 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; it is also included in the Treaty of Lisbon. The term was defined in a \"scoping document\" in Rotterdam in late 2004 and is being elaborated further using empirical data from the ESPON programme in a document entitled \"The Territorial State and Perspectives of the European Union\". At the minister's conference in May 2007 in Leipzig, a political document called the \"Territorial Agenda\" was signed to continue the process begun in Rotterdam, revised in May 2011 in Gödöllő. ==See also== Architecture Comprehensive planning European Spatial Development Perspective Geography ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners Landscape architecture Land use planning Location theory Permeability (spatial and transport planning) Principles of Intelligent Urbanism Regional planning Spatial Citizenship Territorial spatial planning Unified settlement planning Urban planning Urban sprawl ==References== Andreas Faludi, Bas Waterhout, The Making of the European Spatial Development Perspective, London Routledge 2002. . Gerhard Larsson, Spatial Planning Systems in Western Europe - An Overview, Delft Univ Press (2006), . Gerhard Larsson, Land management as Public Policy, University Press of America (2010), . UNECE, Spatial Planning - Key Instrument for Development and Effective Governance with Special Reference to Countries in Transition, Report ECE/HBP/146, Geneva UNECE 2008. Richard H. Williams, European union spatial policy and planning, London Chapman 1996. . ==External links== CEMAT - European Conference of Ministers responsible for Regional Planning EJSD - European Journal of Spatial Development ESPON - European Observation Network on Territorial Development and Cohesion Planum - The European Journal of Planning VASAB - Vision and Strategies around the Baltic Sea - Baltic Sea Region intergovernmental cooperation in spatial planning and development",
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