Polycentric urban forms: The relevance of scale for metropolitan and city planning

0549364 - ÚGN 2022 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Malý, Jiří - Krejčí, Tomáš
Polycentric urban forms: The relevance of scale for metropolitan and city planning.
XXIV. mezinárodní kolokvium o regionálních vědách. Sborník příspěvků. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2021 - (Klímová, V.; Žítek, V.), s. 472-481. ISBN 978-80-210-9896-1.
[Mezinárodní kolokvium o regionálních vědách /24./. Brno (CZ), 01.09.2021-03.09.2021]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-13713S
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : polycentricity * scale * metropolitan planning * urban planning
OECD category: Urban studies (planning and development)
https://www.econ.muni.cz/do/econ/soubory/katedry/kres/4884317/Sbornik2021.pdf

The paper deals with the importance of scale in metropolitan and urban planning, in connection with the promoted and often applied concept of polycentric development. Although the normative conceptualization of polycentricity to some extent reflects the multi-scalar dimension, the operationalization of the concept encounters a number of limitations and fuzzy meanings that result from different scales of analysis and interpretation. Using the Czech context of planning practice, the negligence of the importance of overlapping geographical scales and limits of binding spatial planning materials is documented. The dependence of polycentricity on the scale has consequences both for the analytical evaluation of the spatial situation of the settlement system and for the subsequent interpretation of the results and the setting of further development strategies.

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