Ensuring Public Access to Green Spaces in Urban Densification: The Role of Planning and Property Rights

Jessica Verheij, Deniz Ay, Jean-David Gerber and Stéphane Nahrath

Planning Theory & Practice, 2023, vol. 24, issue 3, 342-365

Abstract: Implementing densification while ensuring green space accessibility is a crucial planning challenge. The powerful role of private for-profit actors densification projects mean that green spaces are at risk of being co-opted by private interests and transformed into club goods. Using a new-institutionalist approach, we analyse the implementation of densification and urban greening based on two case-studies in Switzerland and the Netherlands. We ask what planning strategies are successful in ensuring public access to green spaces in private-led densification. To counteract club formation, planners need to restrict property rights, actively monitor implementation of planning objectives, and ensure an open physical design.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2023.2239215

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