Ideals behind Dutch urban planning

The Netherlands urban planning has evolved until 1990 in coherence with the image of a harmonious, planable society, which has found its expression in, on the one side, the ideal of a fair social-economic distribution and, on the spatial side, which is the subject of this article, the ideal to create an aesthetically ordered environment. The National Reports on Spatial Planning indicate that since the 1960s these ideals have been envisaged in practice: the desire to keep urbanisation as compact as possible to spread a network of small cities, towns and villages throughout the country to preven... Mehr ...