Several issues concerning the spatial levels for the implementation of physical planning and programming in Greece

Abstract

The interest and the quest for the implementation of a systematic physical planning policy by the Greek state has been strongly rekindled over the recent period (1993-94). This article makes an attempt to contribute through the experience in Greece, to the context of physical planning and programming today, putting emphasis on the spatial levels of implementation. This contribution, as well as other, similar ones, may prove useful, considering the fact that Greece is going through a modernising phase of transition from the highly centralised to multi-level decentralised state. The first chapter of the article analyses the basic parameters they have an influence of the modern framework of physical planning and programming in Greece. In the second chapter it is argued that in the European Union's framework and through today's attempted administrative decentrali¬sation in Greece, the basic levels for the implementation of a realistic physical planning and programming are the regional and the local as defined by the first degree Local Administration modernisation process. On the basis of this standpoint the article outlines, in the third chapter, the ways main spatial interventions should be dealt with, concerning the aspect of administrative competencies in relation to the spatial levels of planning implementation.