Dutch Land-use Planning: The Principles and the Practice

by Barrie Needham

Overview

This book gives an up-to-date account of the principles - written and unwritten - behind Dutch planning, and shows how the practice sometimes ignores those principles in order to achieve better results. It describes the content of the policies, the measures taken to realise them, and the successes and failures. The book is not uncritical of Dutch land-use planning, but the author values its strengths and believes that planning in other countries could learn from them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472423047
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	03/28/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Barrie Needham is a professor of urban planning at the University of Nijmegen.. He is also editor of the Series Planning, the Journal of Property Research and Planning Practice and Research and teaches several courses for students of Social Geography and Planning.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Setting the scene: the underlying land and the underlying attitudes; How the Dutch want their land to be used: the content of Dutch spatial planning policy; The planning agencies, their land-use plans, and how they use them: the formal system for land-use planning; The statutory powers for realising those land-use plans: and how they are used; Realising the land-use ambitions in practice: pro-active planning: making things happen; Pro-active planning in practice: examples of the types of projects being realised in this way; Obligations on planning agencies: and how those agencies take account of them; An assessment of Dutch spatial planning: how good is Dutch planning? List of references; Index.

Editorial Reviews

’Rightly or wrongly, Dutch planning is the object of international acclaim. A Cambridge-educated economist, planner and long-term resident in The Netherlands, Barrie Needham combines a critical view with insider knowledge gained as the distinguished Dutch academic and adviser on matters of land policy and planning which he is. Importantly, his assessment addresses the fundamental changes which Dutch planning is undergoing.’ Andreas Faludi, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ’To the outsider Dutch land use, urban and environmental planning both amazes and confounds. In this incisive volume Barrie Needham - a scholar, participant, and long-time foreign resident - explains its why, how and what, both with empathy and a critical eye. An invaluable contribution in an era where the Dutch model offers many lessons for the practice of sustainability.’ Harvey M. Jacobs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

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