Print Email Facebook Twitter Regional Design Title Regional Design: Discretionary Approaches to Planning in the Netherlands Author Balz, Verena Elisabeth (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy) Contributor Zonneveld, W.A.M. (promotor) Nadin, V. (promotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2019-06-26 Abstract This thesis elaborates on the role and position of regional design in spatial planning. Building upon the argument that design in this realm aims to improve planning guidance by judging its implications for particular situations, the thesis develops an analytical framework for an enhanced understanding of how design both influences, and is influenced by, prevailing planning rationales. The analytical framework is applied to a set of regional design initiatives that evolvedin the context of Dutch national plans between 1988 and 2012. Significantly, the analysis reveals aspects of spatial planning frameworks that shape the performances of design practice, of particular importance being the flexibility of planning frameworks and the involvement of actors in initiating, conducting and judging design. In theoretical terms, the thesis contributes to the integration of planning and design theory. The societal relevance of this dissertation evolvesagainst the background of an increasing use of regional design-led practices in Dutch spatial planning since the mid-1980s. Subject Regional designSpatial planningGovernance To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:95a09bb2-2665-4098-8428-62cad20dfa56 DOI https://doi.org/10.7480/abe.2019.7 Publisher A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft ISBN 978-94-6366-182-9 Edition 19 Volume 6 Bibliographical note A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment No 6 (2019) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2019 Verena Elisabeth Balz Files PDF Balz_2019_Regional_Design ... rlands.pdf 16.61 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:95a09bb2-2665-4098-8428-62cad20dfa56/datastream/OBJ/view