He Jinghuan, Luo Bin, Qi Dongjin

Keywords： Soft Spaces; Soft Governance; Informal Instruments; South-wing of Green Heart; Sillon Lorrain Valley; EU

Abstract：

When new spatial challenges or new development opportunities are mismatched with traditional administrative levels, soft space has become a new spatial governance tool. Under the discourse of spatial planning in the past 20 years, the European Union has made rich theoretical achievements in urban agglomeration and cross-border cooperation practice with the perspective of soft space. It has also accumulated experience of planning practices that span across borders, sectors and administrative levels, as well as the corresponding soft governance innovation experience. This paper first introduces the concept of soft space, spatial governance and its evolvement. Then, the policy support provided by the European Union for “soft” restructuring and the soft planning practice in the Metropolitan Region Rotterdam the Hague and the Sillon Lorrain Valley are analyzed. At last, the paper summarizes how its characteristics are different from traditional regional planning, and the main characteristics of soft spaces/governance as a new form of spatial governance in planning practice and sheds light on the development and governance of cross-boundary spaces in China.

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