Observatorios territoriales y urbanos en Europa ¿entidades pasivas o instrumentos operativos para la planificación?

Abstract

As over the last 20 years an important number of spatial and urban observatories (OTU´s) have beencreated in Europe in keeping with European spatial policy mandates and these are busily attempting tooffer a coherent image of the continent’s complex spatial reality, the paper considers them to be of specialinterest for study from the perspective of different planning models and this at different spatial levels.This paper is focused on analyzing the incidence of OTU´s on planning. To this purpose four incidencelevels were designed to classify the OTU´s and thus study their operative or passive role in theplanning process. This planning role is now here seen to run from a mere putting together of spatialinformation through to a full involvement in the decision-making process.Finally and in the light of the fi ndings thus obtained, a discussion is suggested as to the factorsconducive to a likely success in the setting up of this sort of observatories if these are indeed tooffer a genuine operative contribution to EU planning.

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