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Competence for planning usually rests with more than one level of government in a country which creates multi-scalar or multi-level governance for spatial planning. The majority of the 32 countries in the ESPON COMPASS study had three levels of government, though some have two or ...

Water and Spatial Planning in the Netherlands

The Latent Potential of Spatial Planning for Flood Resilience

In February 1953, an extremely powerful northwest storm surge combined with spring tide led to serious floods in a number of countries around the North Sea. No country was hit as badly as the Netherlands. In the southwest of the country, dozens of dikes were breached, leading to ...
Like other countries with large ports, the Netherlands developed a policy narrative to acquire a key position in global value chains starting in the 1980s, through the spatial development of its hinterland logistics complex. The negative environmental effects of logistics, such a ...

Visual Storytelling

Assessing the power of maps in planning

There is an abundant use of visualisation in spatial planning. This chapter is particularly concerned about planning on the regional level and beyond. On these higher levels of scales maps form the dominant visualisation mode. To fully comprehend and evaluate the content of these ...

De Randstad

Zin en onzin van een concept

Een polycentrische stad, een geheel van keurig afgebakende steden rond een groen hart. Dat is de gedachte achter de Randstad. Hoogleraar Wil Zonneveld laat zien dat het concept Randstad alleen kon functioneren met een nationale overheid die zich actief bemoeide met ruimtelijke or ...
Column - In veel landen wordt geworsteld met de bestuurlijke aanpak van regionale ruimtelijke vraagstukken. Moet de bestuurlijke indeling worden aangepast? Zo ja, moet dat voor het hele land worden gedaan? Of zou een nieuwe bestuurlijke indeling zich kunnen beperken tot die regio ...
Column - Werkend aan de afronding van een reader over de Randstad, samen met Vincent Nadin, kwam als vanzelf de vraag op of het Randstad concept vandaag de dag nog enig nut heeft? Bij buitenlandse collega’s is de Randstad behoorlijk bekend, deelsdoor achtereenvolgende edities van ...
Column - Bij het onlangs rigoureus opruimen van mijn vakbibliotheek moesten soms harde beslissingen worden genomen. Maar hoe doe je dat? Bij twijfel stelde ik mij telkens twee vragen. Heeft dit boek ooit voor mij betekenis gehad? Ga ik dit boek ooit nog eens gebruiken? En zo moes ...
The most dominant form of visualization in regional design is mapping. This chapter seeks to unravel why and how maps are used in regional design and what sort of techniques may give maps agency. The chapter seeks to explain how the textual and visual languages of regional design ...
This chapter focuses on the nature and powers of governance arrangements in two Dutch metropolitan areas, both situated in the Randstad: the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (Metropoolregio Amsterdam) and the Metropolitan Region Rotterdam The Hague (Metropoolregio Rotterdam Den Haag ...
The climate crisis has grown worse, with impacts more severe, widespread, unpredictable, and what’s worse, not dealt with globally in a meaningful way. The devastating wildfires in Australia in late 2019 and the western United States of America (USA) in 2020 seemed to underscore ...

Introducing the Randstad

A polycentric metropolis

The Randstad and polycentric regions generally are not only vehicles to create critical economic mass. The geography of the Randstad is unmistakably deltaic, with expanses of flat open land crisscrossed by watercourses and historic windmills that remain from a former network of m ...

Randstad

From a spatial planning concept to a place name

This chapter seeks to unravel the history of the Randstad planning concept and focuses on the national level as a lot of the thinking about the Randstad has been carried out within national planning organisations and trickled down to provincial and municipal planning. It begins w ...

Interdisciplinary pedagogies for regional development challenges

The re-coupling of planning, design, and the social sciences

To address regional development effectively, integrative strategies are needed based on interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary thinking. To prepare professionals for this task it is crucial to look at higher education, in particular regional design education. Three key disc ...
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows how specific advantages given to cities, for instance trading and taxation rights in medieval times, had a clear influence on the economy of cities and th ...

Introduction

The resurgence of regional design

Regional design, long a backbone for spatial planning, even if under other names, has become topical again for two reasons-as a key strategy and as a key tool in spatial management. This is due to several reasons. New conditions of urbanization that result from the convergence of ...

The Institutionalisation of a Creative Practice

Changing Roles of Regional Design in Dutch National Planning

This chapter discusses the organisational setting of regional design in the realms of spatial planning and territorial governance. As a starting point, it argues that rules on how imagined design solutions function in an abstract, simplified ‘planning world’ are an important regi ...
Wat is schoonheid nog in ons land waar ruimte schaars is en waar de zorg voor een veilige, gezonde leefomgeving met een goede omgevingskwaliteit wettelijk is vastgelegd? Wat is dan goed? En is het goede wel mooi? Door de toenemende
complexiteit van opgaven lijkt schoonheid st ...
The objective of this case study is to investigate EU Cohesion policy performance and communication and the impact on citizens’ attitudes to the EU in Limburg, the Netherlands. The case study also contextualises comparative COHESIFY research findings and provides more in-depth in ...