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- I study how designing and the subsequent designs change people's desires and decisions.
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The metropolis of Hong Kong has expanded enormously since 1960, by means of a New Town strategy. On its main land, self contained cities were built to accommodate the population growth of as much as a million inhabitants per decade. Allegedly without paying much attention to built cultural heritage. This paper reports on a systematic comparison for...
There is increasing evidence that the quality of green space significantly contributes to neighborhood satisfaction and well-being, independent of the mere amount of green space. In this paper, we examined residents' perceptions of the quality and beneficial affordances of green space in relation to objectively assessed accessibility and usability....
Visions can be valuable tools for guiding and uniting land use interests in a region with fragmented administration. What determines the strength of a vision and how can it effectively play its role? Our study tested and supplemented hypotheses on the success factors of visions. We chose a city in a rebuilding process because that represents a most...
In the pursuit of the communicative, collaborative and participatory planning processes advocated by academic planning literature, a practice has evolved that translates abstract objectives into practical workforms. Planning literature proposes many objectives that can be met by less top-down methods of generating ideas and making decisions. Little...
The positive relationships between urban green space and health have been well documented. Little is known, however, about the role of residents' emotional attachment to local green spaces in these relationships, and how attachment to green spaces and health may be promoted by the availability of accessible and usable green spaces. The present rese...
There is interest among planners in autonomous behaviour and non-linear processes supporting urban development. Self-organization has attracted attention as a potential driver for urban transformations. This paper aims to explore the mechanisms behind urban land use patterns resulting from the interdependence of self-organization and institutions....
This paper examines how landownership patterns are, partially, both a result of and a condition for the designs that planners make for sites. Designs emerge in the process of arriving at a development plan, preceding formal plans and decisions. We claim that during that process, landownership and designs are responsive to each other. To explore thi...
Plans change the world in subtle ways, through persuasive power with reframing effects, that precede their actual execution. We empirically tested this persuasive power, taking a failed Olympic bid as a case. Bidding entails making very detailed plans for sites and infrastructure that are not easily forgotten, even when another city is picked to or...
Development plans are central tools in spatial planning practice. They create a vision of how places should develop and prescribe how desired patterns of development will be realized. However, development plans are increasingly regarded as inflexible and even rigid when confronted by changes in their context. Conceptualizing urban districts in term...
Peri-urban areas are generally highly dynamic and fragmented zones. This is due not only to their functional and physical diversity and fragmentation, but also because they are the focus of a wide variety of perceptions and interests. This plurality causes on-going planning difficulties, affecting planners' ability to identify and strategically str...
Changes in planning practices can be explained from the prevailing theoretical juxtaposition of 'institutional design' and 'institutional evolution'; two schools of thought that are at the extremes of assumptions on modifiability. The two extremes are considered to be inextricably linked to each other and cannot be separated; institutional design a...
Despite attempts to connect planning with design disciplines, some opportunities to do so still await further inquiry, particularly the conception promoted by Throgmorton of planning as persuasive storytelling. According to this perspective, we persuade one another about what the future should and can bring, as well as convince others to agree on a...
Many planning theorists have suggested that peoples' non-participation in collaborative processes is due to disempowerment. This paper challenges that assertion, arguing that a person's tendency to participate in neighbourhood interventions is intimately related to their lifestyle as well. Analysing the results of a survey conducted in a Dutch city...
Governments serve the public interest by regulating land use in favour of democratically determined objectives. While people can become involved in allocation processes through pre-structured participation, uninvited entry into planning processes may occur too. This article studies the latter, seeking to highlight the mechanisms of interaction betw...
In densely populated regions, plans to build into open space may become fiercely protested. Urban fringes are typical spaces of contention, where neighbourhood activism can be observed frequently. Protests emerge spontaneously and in a variety of guises. Despite the research on how to design genuine participatory planning, we know little about what...
In densely populated regions, plans to build into open space may become fiercely protested. Urban fringes are typical spaces of contention, where neighbourhood activism can be observed frequently. Protests emerge spontaneously and in a variety of guises. Despite the research on how to design genuine participatory planning, we know little about what...
Cities throughout the world continue to physically expand, complicating access to regional open space for the ever-larger share of the world population that lives in cities. As the importance of a green living environment receives increasing attention, the implementation of strategies for controlling where the urban fringe can and cannot move becom...
Public policy is often implemented through formal laws. In contrast to the typically optimistic ex-ante analyses of the impact of a set of laws, in retrospect it may be hard to determine what the laws concretely produced. Particularly complicated to measure are the unintended and indirect effects on actors or values that were not the prime focus of...
This report describes and analyses the efforts of regional partners to steer land use developments in the urban fringe of The Hague.
Open-space preservation is a planner's issue that is constantly debated, in particular on the success of the implemented instruments. Assessments of policy effectiveness face many methodological problems that are briefly discussed here. We choose to analyse the contribution of Dutch policies to open-space preservation by comparing actual land-use d...
An integral part of post-socialist transformation under the Washington Consensus has been the privatisation of previously state owned and/or co-operative farms. In many instances, there have been attempts at ‘turning back the clock’ to pre-War conditions, including land ownership structures. Frequently, the result has been the division of large, ec...
When a city expands land use of the fringes has to be converted into urban land use. Surrounding land has a fixed position and is non-urban by definition. Within Western Europe, an intriguing variety of systems for this land conversion are being applied. Cross-national exchange of planning experience is of great interest, but the specific national...
Metropolitan landscapes typically are patchworks of urban land use and open space. But metric geography and people's subjective perception of how green their neighbourhood is may divert. What looks appealing on a map may on the ground (and thus psychologically) turns out to be quite different. Main infrastructure blocks views, adds noise and pr eve...
The enlargement of the European Union has triggered the exchange of spatial planning practices between East and West. Particularly on the level of policy instruments, the intervention side of the planning spectrum, Western European experts on spatial planning have been actively exporting their knowledge to the new and candidate member states. This...
Apart from the concept of space being a main concern of spatial planning, the concept of time, too, has a role. Not only by setting time limits to substantive plans; planning is also subject to time and the implications of this are analysed in this paper. Planning instruments age and need cyclic maintenance for staying effective, a process referred...
Central European agricultural land ownership is fragmented. An instrument that is particularly suited for solving the land fragmentation problem is land banking. Although the potential of land banking is acknowledged, details on the actual use prove to be hard to fill in. In Western Europe, a long-standing tradition on land banking provides insight...
After the collapse of socialism and the consequent land privatisation process, Central Europe was left with an unfavourable agricultural production structure. In this light, the exchange of Western European knowledge on land consolidation seemed logical and effective. Looking back, a match that seemed at the time to be straightforward now appears m...
Met het verder verstedelijken van ons land vervagen de traditionele grenzen tussen stad en land. Door deze ontwikkeling naar een metropolitaan landschap wordt de open ruimte tussen grote steden, het metropolitane buitengebied, steeds belangrijker voor de stedeling als ruimte om zich te bewegen en te ontspannen. Echter, de bereikbaarheid en de aantr...
In the Central-European countries, a transformation from command-economy to market-economy is taking place. Redistribution of rights over land is one aspect of transformation, and a key process particularly in rural areas. Changing property and use rights means changing patterns of land use. In theory, ecological structures and conservation areas t...
In industrialized countries the cohesion between cities and surrounding green areas in a so-called metropolitan landscape ('MetroLand') is essential for sustainable urban living conditions. Within this context infrastructure has a paradoxical role: it enables city dwellers to travel to and within attractive landscapes, where, at the same time, it c...
SUMMARY A government can decide to change the structure of rural land use and land ownership. For instance, because the agricultural production structure is impeding a reasonable standard of living in rural areas, or because objectives for non-agricultural land use are to be met. That government then has to find a way to actually realise its policy...
Agricultural land is very fragmentated in the Central European countries. This situation hampers the emergence of a private commercial farming structure. Governments and non-governmental organisations debate on programs and instruments, but these far-reaching and costly options would be unnecessary if the situation were to improve through autonomou...
Phenomena abroad is receiving increasing attention and exporting planning knowledge meets specific difficulties. This article tries to sustain two claims. First, it claims that advising and comparative research are linked, because the more options are known, the more likely it is that a well-suited strategy can be chosen. The second claim is that c...
The benefits from minor rural road infrastructure can be very individual, when a road is important for reaching a (group of) farm(s), serving little or no inter-local traffic. Rural road maintenance therefore asks for a specific taxation model that distributes costs according to benefits involved for the individual taxpayer. The distribution of mai...
Besides all the problems frustrating Central European land markets and solutions for fragmentation, there is one important asset: Land Funds. Their potential is widely acknowledged, but details on the actual use prove to be hard to fill in. Reviewing the history of the Dutch polders, similarities are striking. This paper uncovers the valuable Dutch...
SUMMARY Like many instruments for spatial policy, land consolidation has been subject to continuous modification since its legal emergence. Such modifications initially were optimisations of the procedure, with the intention to enhance the effectiveness of land consolidation in rationalising agriculture. But today, land consolidation faces challeng...
Central European agriculture suffers from extreme fragmentation of land ownership. Land consolidation may be a solution, provided that specific regional conditions are considered. Current regional conditions are the subject of several studies, but do lack the time-dimension. Investigating Central European fragmentation should not be confined to the...
Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and Association of Collegial Schools of Planning (ACSP) joint conference, Chicago, july 2008
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Project (1)
Traditionally, spatial designers develop high-quality, smart, tailor-made solutions for a specific place, neighborhood, city or area. Nowadays, spatial designers also take up boundary spanning roles in complex planning projects that aim for sutainable transformations. This project investigates the roles and critical conditions for boundary spanning by spatial designers.
