Unsolicited & Welcome: An inquiry into the desirability and feasibility of Unsolicited Proposals in Dutch urban area development

Traditionally, municipalities in the Netherlands have been taking a dominant and leading role in the urban area development. Currently, the municipalities pursue more often a facilitating and passive role, and prefer to utilize market resources and capabilities. The lack of municipal resources, stacking complexity of the objectives and...

Flood Resiliency in Urban Area Development

How can we make our cities more sustainable? And in particular, how to build the resiliency of urban environments to the effects of climate change and increased urbanization? This is one of the main challenges that urban planners are dealing with today. The relevance of this issue is reflected in the large number of cities around the globe that...

Elaboration of the Dutch Olympic approach: Design of decision support instruments for multiple Olympic urban decision arenas

In this report the traditional top-down approach for spatial planning in the Netherlands has been brought up for discussion. On the basis of the decision-making process concerning the organization of the Dutch Olympic Games of 2028, the foundations for a new way of spatial planning is elaborated. That new way of spatial planning is termed the...

The effects of the use of the concession model: Case study regarding five Dutch urban area development cases