Planning in independent Ukraine: understanding its becoming and consolidation

ABSTRACT

The comment conceptualizes the becoming of planning in independent Ukraine, and its consolidation through the prism of unfolding decentralization efforts, the growing role of cities in the global-relational networks, and social model changes, driven by the collective willpower of self-determination as a distinctive European nation.

KEYWORDS:

• Planning in Ukraine
• decentralization
• global-relational networks
• social models

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)

Notes

1. According to Romanova and Umland (2019), the concept of hromadas (local territorial communities) as a substitute for cities, towns and villages was first introduced in the Law Draft 3207–1 and submitted to parliament in 2003 as part of ‘a new fundamental reform attempt’ (p. 6) before the Orange Revolution of 2004.

2. For an extensive discussion of the correlation between typologies of planning systems and typologies of social models, see Nadin and Stead (2008).

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Funding

The work is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Research Grants—Doctoral Programs in Germany, 2019/20 [57440921].