Self‐Organisation in Oosterwold, Almere: Challenges with Public Goods and Externalities

Attention to self‐organisation and spontaneous order in urban development is growing both in academia and in planning practice. One of the current academic discussions centres around the desirability of self‐organisation. This paper evaluates the case of self‐organisation in Oosterwold Almere in the Netherlands — an atypical case as it is a large‐scale experimental project of organic urban development. We analysed how this case deals with traditional welfare‐economic justifications for urban planning by the government. Several challenges of self‐governing communities in dealing with public goo... Mehr ...