Regional Design in Dutch Transport Planning Strategies

Regional Design in Dutch Transport Planning Strategies

Balz, V.E.
Stead, D.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

2014-07-09

The last decade has witnessed various trends in decentralization of government responsibilities related to spatial planning in the Netherlands and this has resulted in a differing flexibility of the indicative planning frameworks for transport and spatial development. In this article we investigate whether and if so, how revisions of frameworks have influenced the engagement of sub-national governments in ‘regional design’, the formulation of regional development strategies and projects by means of spatial representations, maps and plans. The paper examines one case in which a regional Transit Oriented Development (TOD) strategy has been formulated and implemented in the Netherlands. It analyses the spatial representations produced during the development of these strategies, considers the role of the representations in the decision-making process and analyses the extent to which the spatial representations reflect the decentralization shifts in national transport and land use planning frameworks. The main aim of this paper is to improve understanding of the role of ‘regional design’ in planning processes. Little has been written on this subject to date.

regional design
spatial representations
indicative planning

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AESOP

Proceedings AESOP 2014: Annual Conference "From control to co-evolution", Utrecht/Delft, The Netherlands, 9-12 July 2014

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