This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts) and the PowerPoint slides as a PDF file (as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact him for permission to refer to his PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research).

In 1999 the Standing Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Spatial Planning approved a concept for future spatial development of the European Union (EU). This European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) has not been followed up to cover all of the 27 EU member states, and has not become an official EU document. Despite its weak political status, the document has become an influential instrument for the academic discourse on balanced territorial development in Europe. Its principles are widely recognised across the EU and guide spatial development of most member countries. This approach to spatial planning has found the attention of Chinese planners, in search of appropriate and transferable approaches to territorial development in China. The lecture explored the extent to which the principles of the ESDP are applied in Europe and discussed whether it can be considered as a model for guiding future spatial development in China.

Klaus R. Kunzmann holds a PhD in planning from the Technische Universität Wien. At the Technische Universität Dortmund he held the Jean Monnet Chair for European Spatial Planning. Professor Kunzmann published 12 books, many chapters in edited books and articles in international journals. He co-edited China and Europe: The Implications of the Rise of China for European Space (Routledge, 2010).

This event was co-hosted by the ANU Centre for European Studies and the Australian Centre on China in the World.

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