Raumordnung und Kulturlandschaft aus institutioneller Perspektive

With the adoption of the guiding principles and policy strategies of spatial development in Germany the development of cultural landscapes has become a central task of spatial planning. State and regional planning are not concerned with direct land-use regulation. Their coordination mechanism is meta-regulation, the regulation of other regulation processes. A meta-regulatory strategy aims not to control individual land-use decisions but the planning processes of other public planning organisations. State and regional plans set rules for organisations and project developers, monitor them and seek to bring about compliance with those rules. But there is a shift toward policy making and implementation through networks. Regional collaboration in policy networks have grown in importance, in part because no single planning organisation on the local or regional level is usually capable of regulating complex landscape development processes.