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    Builders and planners : a history of land-use and infrastructure planning in the Netherlands / editors, Jos Arts, Ruud Filarski, Hans Jeekel and Bert Toussaint ; authors, Jos Arts [and 11 others].

    • Title:Builders and planners : a history of land-use and infrastructure planning in the Netherlands / editors, Jos Arts, Ruud Filarski, Hans Jeekel and Bert Toussaint ; authors, Jos Arts [and 11 others].
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    • Author/Creator:Arts, Jos, author, editor.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Filarski, R. (Ruud), 1939- author, editor.
      Jeekel, Hans, author, editor.
      Toussaint, Bert, author, editor.
    • Published/Created:Delft : Eburon Academic Publisheres, [2016]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Land use--Netherlands--History.
      Infrastructure (Economics)--Netherlands--History.
    • Description:xi, 521 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
    • Summary:This book looks at the intersection of Dutch infrastructure builders and Dutch spatial planners, both of whom have historically desired to order Dutch space. From the professionalization of builders and planners in the 1920s, when they first sought to leave their mark on the design of the land, to the subsequent transition from urban to regional and national spatial planning, and the groups' increasingly public roles in the 1950s and '60s, Builders and Planners is a story of collaboration and conflict, of coalitions and opposition between two expert groups working in the Dutch space. Also including case studies of particular construction projects that shed light on the difficult path from plan to completion, as well as offering insight into the unique nature of planning in the Netherlands through detailed comparison with Belgium, Builders and Planners provides new and fascinating perspectives on the history of Dutch planning and planners.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 471- 498) and indexes.
    • ISBN:9789463010313 hardcover
      9463010319 hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. What is this book about?
      2. densely populated and intensively used country
      3. Spatial planners and infrastructure builders
      4. High points and opposition
      5. Response to the opposition and more recent developments
      6. structure of this book
      ch. 1 Paradise Regained? / Bruno De Meulder
      1. Anno 2013: Towards shared concepts in Dutch infrastructure and spatial planning
      2. Dutch and Belgian planning traditions: a caricature
      3. preindustrial Low Countries
      4. Balancing city and countryside in 19th century Belgium
      5. different revolution: the Netherlands at the end of the 19th and first half 20th century
      6. 1920
      1997: "le retour aux champs" in Belgium
      7. Second half of the 20th century in the Netherlands: Strong infrastructure and spatial planning
      8. Tentative Conclusion
      First intermezzo: Building planning traditions / Jos Arts
      ch. 2 emancipation of the urban view: Dutch spatial planning in an international context (1920
      1950) / Gijs Mom
      1. Introduction
      2. Non-urban roots of planning: ideas and institutions
      3. delicate question: Who should lead the planners' practice?
      4. Dutch non-urban planning: its conceptual and institutional roots
      5. ideology of "order"
      6. Post-war poldering
      7. Conclusions: the planner's emancipation
      Second intermezzo: The first decades after World War II / Jos Arts
      ch. 3 West and the Rest: The Green Heart and the breakthrough of spatial planning (1950
      1982) / Gijs Mom
      1. Introduction
      2. Dutch planning concepts in government memoranda and reports
      3. politicization of infrastructure building and the convergence of the planning perspective
      4. Expectations and results: interpreting the outcome of the struggle
      5. Conclusions
      Third intermezzo: From a professional arena to a political arena / Jos Arts
      ch. 4 Contested spatial planning: ca. 1965-1985 / Bert Toussaint
      1. sixties and beyond: the making of a counter culture, democratization and environmentalism
      2. Shifting perspectives: the contested RW 14
      3. Conclusions
      Fourth intermezzo: Process planning and its difficulties / Hans Jeekel
      ch. 5 On the Right Track? / Ruud Filarski
      1. Introduction
      2. Rotterdam and International Container Transport
      3. Mainport Concept
      4. Proponents and Opponents of the Betuwe Route
      5. Report of the Van Der Plas Commission
      6. New Government Policy
      7. Infrastructure Planning Act of 1993
      8. Netherlands Railways Takes the Lead
      9. Government Assumes the Reins of Power
      10. Opposition Organizes Itself
      11. Spatial Integration. Policy Deliberations
      12. Five Supplementary Studies
      13. Decision-Making in the Second Chamber
      14. Reconsideration? The Hermans Commission
      15. Reconsideration? The Second Chamber
      16. Controversy Among Investigators, Builders and Policy Makers (I)
      17. Controversy Among Investigators, Builders and Policy Makers (II)
      18. Finances
      19. Comparison of the Transport Prognoses with the Actual Development
      20. Conclusions
      Fifth intermezzo: From plan-driven to project-driven planning / Hans Jeekel
      ch. 6 Farewell to Big Planning? 1990-2010 / Frank Veraart
      1. Introduction
      2. Fourth Memorandum on Spatial Planning
      3. Back to Basics: The Fourth Memorandum (Extra): VINEX
      4. Planning and Building Leidsche Rijn
      5. Opposites Attract: The Fifth Memorandum and the Report on Spatial Development
      6. Farewell to Big Planning?
      Conclusions and a Look at the Future / Hans Jeekel
      Introduction
      1. Development and interaction of both traditions with their actors
      2. What has been achieved in practice
      3. Comparison with the planning tradition in Belgium
      4. number of common threads
      5. look at the future.
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