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Improving Institutions for Green Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas : Improving Institutions for Green Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas.
""Improving Institutions for Green Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas"" investigates how various institutions for green landscapes in metropolitan areas work, which problems hamper them, and how these institutions can be improved. Themes, theories and methods have been selected as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
IOS Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Sustainable Urban Areas, v. 25.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Research questions and the structure of this book; Research approach; The application of different theories; Multi-theory; Combining complementing theories; Introducing the cases; Midden-Delfland, Land Consolidation; Midden-Delfland, recent projects; The National Landscape Laag Holland; Cross-subsidy strategies in the Bloemendalerpolder; The Park Forest, Ghent Project; Model for green area protection and improvement; Green area protection and improvement in practice; From case study towards a model; Conclusion.
- Landscape changes and the restructuring of the welfare stateSigns of landscape changes; Signs concerning spatial quality; Signs concerning zoning; Signs concerning land ownership; Struggling landscape guardians; Recreational areas; Nature conservation sites; The importance of farmers for metropolitan green areas; Influences of the restructuring of the welfare state; Impact on sector departments; Direct impact on spatial planning; Conclusion; Market or government; the limitations of Transaction Cost Theory; Branches of Transaction Cost Theory; Transaction Cost Theory in the field of planning.
- Attempts to adopt Transaction Cost TheoryInstitutional design based on explanatory Transaction Cost Theory; Public bureaus as a last resort; Different subsidizing strategies; Usability of explanatory Transaction Cost Theory; Planning, more than a tool to lower transaction cost between private parties; Low organization costs as a criterion?; Conclusion; Market or government; the debate about cross-subsidy strategies; Motivations for a cross-subsidy approach; Collaboration; Spatial quality; Finances; Different terms and different motivations; Evaluating the Bloemendalerpolder process.
- The planning processEvaluating the process; Lessons that can be applied from the Bloemendalerpolder case; The constraints of a cross-subsidy approach; Legal constraints; Financial constraints; Skepticism about the improvement of spatial quality; Opposition because of rising land prices, limited transparency and inclusiveness; The uniqueness of the Bloemendalerpolder case; Conclusion; Network or hierarchy; Theories on networks and hierarchies; Hierarchical and network-oriented approaches in practice; Reasons to combine hierarchical and network-oriented approaches; Conclusion.
- Spatial planning and land developmentThe operational and strategic spatial planning-land development matrix; Roots of Dutch spatial planning and land development rationalities; Consequences of mono-rational approaches; "Farmland that will become vacant"; The effect of cross-subsidy approaches on land prices; Mismatch between strategic and collaboratively made plans and operational resources; The aim of planning; Overstretched use of strategic spatial planning rationalities; Institutional change and tensions between public interest and private rights.