Abstract
The rapid urbanisation of the world leads, among others, to dynamic development of metropolitan areas. The functional relationships between territorial units which make up a metropolitan area mean that the preparation of economically, spatially and environmentally coherent strategies needs to be coordinated at the metropolitan level in order to prevent negative effects of metropolisation and to ensure sustainable development of such an area. This in turn requires that the approach towards managing development shifts in favour of governance and integrated strategies. The paper aims at assessing whether the integrated planning and management is used in metropolitan areas in Romania. The desk research method was applied to analyse Romanian legislation for metropolitan areas, integrated strategies for the development of metropolitan areas and reports on their implementation. Interviews with representatives of selected associations of metropolitan areas provided additional valuable insight.
Highlights
Contemporary processes of globalisation and the related metropolisation cause fundamental changes in the form, structure, and organisation of cities (Solecki, Leichenko, 2006: 8)
The part of this study focuses on the analysis of the approach to develop‐ ment management in Romanian metropolitan areas
The functioning of the association can be financed by con‐ tributions from its members and other sources, in accordance with the law (Lege nr. 215/2001, 2007)
Summary
Contemporary processes of globalisation and the related metropolisation cause fundamental changes in the form, structure, and organisation of cities (Solecki, Leichenko, 2006: 8). The clear discrepancy between the administrative borders within which municipalities function to meet the needs of their residents and the borders determined by func‐ tional relationships that reflect the actual area of influence of individual urban centres means that to ensure the effectiveness of actions taken by public authori‐ ties, it is necessary to implement integrated planning and management methods. Another characteristic of metropolitan areas is diversity (Heinelt, Kübler, 2004). Interviews with representatives of selected associations of metropolitan areas, conducted by e‐mail between June and September 2020, provided additional valuable insight
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