Unpacking Spatial Planning as the Governance of Place
International Summer School 2016
25 August to 27 August 2016 in Stockholm (Sweden)
The ARL International Summer School 2016 was organised in cooperation with the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University and dealt with “unpacking spatial planning as the governance of place”.
The summer school programme focused on concepts of governance in spatial planning, which have been an important issue in planning theory for quite some time. State-of-the-art concepts, methods and empirical approaches to governance in spatial planning were introduced and discussed.
The summer school was attended by twenty doctoral students from different European countries. Professors Ulf Jansson, Peter Schmitt (both Stockholm University), and Rainer Danielzyk (ARL) led the participants through the three-day programme. Each doctoral student was given the opportunity to present and discuss the concepts, theories and empirical results of their dissertation project with the professors and fellow doctoral students. The projects showed a wide range of topics, including case studies from Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Kenya and Ghana.