The need for more variety in Dutch spatial planning policies - The case of the Rotterdam Port

Airports and seaports in general serve as important nodes that connect national, regional and local areas with global networks. The balancing of the apparently contradictory spatial quality requirements of this multi-level and multi-actor environment is a challenge. The focus of this paper is on spatial quality requirements regarding the port region of Rotterdam. A well-known theory that can describe the rationale behind the need for balancing between localised and non-localised networks is Manuel Castells notion of the space of places and the space of flows in the network society. These conce... Mehr ...