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budgetary fundament a municipality depends on, which is income and commercial tax redistribution to a large degree. Examples of collaborative school planning and national park planning do exist but are not mandatory and committed. Similarly, the central place approach in settlement planning follows relational principles at a regional level.

The network geography would complement territorial planning politics by emphasizing local housing needs in relation to other – already existing or yet developing – structural links (infrastructure) that connect functional activities in an appropriate manner, whereby appropriateness is defined by the local collectives that belong to the networks at hand. It would help to reduce the competitive-selfish momentum of exclusionary territorial planning due to reciprocal mechanisms of exchanges of money and tangible and intangible infrastructures [31]. Furthermore, it would help to promote local community participation and engagement with their natural and social environments. This idea refers to communalism or libertarian socialism and seeks to conflate individual autonomy with collective commitment [32]. As a local-democratic initiative, it is seen as an essential ingredient to conquering housing commodification and an authoritarian housing policy and philosophy.
