New planning approaches in the Netherlands. How urban development is reinventing itself



Dembski, S ORCID: 0000-0002-4292-6712
(2018) New planning approaches in the Netherlands. How urban development is reinventing itself. Geographische Rundschau, 70 (3). pp. 14-19.

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Abstract

For a long time, urban development in the Netherlands was a primarily state-driven activity, in which a golden triangle consisting of the national government, social housing corporations and municipalities worked together to realise large-scale urban extensions. This was enabled by an active municipal land policy, which allowed municipalities to steer development and often to generate additional income through internalising of the planning gain. However, this development model resulted in large-scale residential areas which often lacked character. The financial risks of this model were unveiled during the global financial crisis in recent years, when municipalities experienced great financial losses due to decreasing book values of their land accounts. This may have resulted in a turning point in Dutch urban planning, moving away from state-led large-scale urban development towards new organic and flexible forms of development with a key role for bottom-up initiatives. The article presents two innovative cases of organic development: Amsterdam Buiksloterham and Almere Oosterwold. Here, planners wanted to allow for maximum flexibility in the development of the two areas through a "light" set of rules to stimulate bottom-up initiatives rather than prescribing specific spatial outcomes.

Item Type: Article
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 24 Jan 2019 11:52
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 06:42
URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3016685