This study is concerned with the way colonial land use planning practices have persisted within local institutional structures in the former French colony of Morocco. We use a historical institutionalist approach to reevaluate Morocco's land use planning history and identify key feedback mechanisms that support the continuity of colonial practices within the Moroccan planning institutional structure. We used institutional mappings to identify key actors involved in planning and examined the formal power relations between them. Interviews were used to discuss the effect of informal interactions on the development of land use plans. We argue that aspects of French colonial planning that persisted within the Moroccan local institutional structure have created constraints for Moroccan land use planning. We focus in particular on how a centralist formalization of planning institutions has hampered the effectiveness of decentralization reforms and explain how institutional patterns deriving from the French paternalist approach to colonial rule have persisted in the form of a duality in modern planning structures. Finally, we argue that this path dependence has been strengthened by the creation of the derogation system as a potential way out for actors who are most capable of inducing change.

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后殖民背景下的规划和治理：摩洛哥土地利用规划的历史制度主义方法

本研究关注殖民地土地使用规划实践在前法国殖民地摩洛哥的地方制度结构中持续存在的方式。我们使用历史制度主义方法重新评估摩洛哥的土地利用规划历史，并确定支持摩洛哥规划制度结构内殖民实践连续性的关键反馈机制。我们使用制度映射来识别参与规划的关键参与者，并检查他们之间的正式权力关系。访谈被用来讨论非正式互动对土地利用计划制定的影响。我们认为，在摩洛哥当地制度结构中持续存在的法国殖民规划的各个方面对摩洛哥土地使用规划造成了限制。我们特别关注规划机构的中央集权形式化如何阻碍分权改革的有效性，并解释源自法国家长式殖民统治方法的制度模式如何在现代规划结构中以二元性的形式持续存在。最后，我们认为，作为最有能力引发变革的参与者的潜在出路，减损系统的创建加强了这种路径依赖。