The self-organizing city: An analysis of the institutionalization of organic urban development in the Netherlands

Due to the impact of the global financial crisis on the Dutch real estate market, the poor financial position of municipalities that resulted from that, and their reluctance to continue with proactive public land development, and an ongoing shift from greenfield development to urban transformation, private sector-led organic urban development increasingly seems to replace the predominant comprehensive, integrated approach to planning and real estate development in the Netherlands. The question we address in this chapter is to what extent these “new” organic development approaches have been ins... Mehr ...