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Author Needham, Barrie

Title Dutch Land-use Planning : the Principles and the Practice
Published London : Taylor & Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages)
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Setting the scene -- How the dutch want their land to be used -- The planning agencies, their land-use plans, and how they use them -- The statutory powers for realising those land-use plans -- Realising the land-use ambitions in practice -- Pro-active planning in practice -- Obligations on planning agencies -- An assessment of dutch spatial planning -- List of references
Summary Dutch planning is widely known and admired for its ambitions and its achievements. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description and analysis in English of its full range of policies and practices. It gives an up-to-date account of the principles - written and unwritten - behind the planning, and in addition shows how the practice sometimes ignores those principles in order to achieve better results. It describes the content of the policies, the measures taken to realise them, and the successes and failures. The book is not uncritical of Dutch land-use planning, but the a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Land use -- Netherlands -- Planning
City planning -- Netherlands
Regional planning -- Netherlands
City planning
Land use -- Planning
Regional planning
Landesplanung
Stadtplanung
Netherlands
Niederlande
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317147558
1317147553
9781317147541
1317147545