In Search of Strategic Capacity: An evaluation of the effectiveness of collaborative spatial planning in the southern Randstad as reflected by the performance of the Adaptive Agenda Southern Randstad 2040

In Search of Strategic Capacity: An evaluation of the effectiveness of collaborative spatial planning in the southern Randstad as reflected by the performance of the Adaptive Agenda Southern Randstad 2040

Harteveld, E.

Zonneveld, W.A.M. (mentor)
Waterhout, B. (mentor)
Broekhans, B. (mentor)
Van den Beuken, F.T. (mentor)

Technology, Policy and Management

OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment

Urban and Regional Development

2014-08-20

In the face of geographic, social and economic dynamics, Dutch spatial planning has underwent a significant change from prescriptive and regulatory top down planning to collaborative spatial planning (CSP) in networks of like-minded governments. Such CSP initiatives, or regional collaborations, seek to align their efforts to steer regional development to their joint benefit. The CSP effort is one of defining common ambitions across different tiers of government and integrating policy fields and territories. In the last few years, regional collaborations between different tiers of government and even external parties have emerged as the contemporary spatial planning practice. The changes in spatial planning practice have made old roles of government obsolete and responsibilities have shifted. Numerous regional collaborations, all attempting to find the right organization, size and scope, have popped up across the Netherlands. However, best practices have not yet been identified. The evaluation of the effectiveness of regional collaborations is key in developing a frame of reference for best practices for the institutional arrangements within regional collaborations. However, an appropriate evaluation framework is not yet available. This thesis offers a comprehensive framework for the evaluation of regional collaborations which is then used to evaluate a CSP initiate in the southern Randstad, namely the regional collaboration between the national government and the Zuidvleugel partners.

planning evaluation
collaborative spatial planning
network governance
strategic capacity
southern Randstad

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Campus only

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Harteveld, E.