Role of Geographers in Spatial Planning Studies
The eighth edition of the “CGR Meetings” continued the discussions associated with the issue of territorial development through a debate focused on the geographical dimension of the spatial planning studies. The topic proposed by Professor Dănuţ Petrea, Dean of the Faculty of Geography, focused on four ways to amplify this dimension, namely the usefulness of these studies, their mode of implementation, their achievability and the opportunities that derive from their elaboration. Among the conclusions reported were issues such as the need for the involvement of geographers (“geographicization”) in the elaboration of spatial planning and territorial development studies, the promotion and application of the principle of territorial integration, the impact of regional geography in capturing the specificities of the territories, regardless of the scale approached.
