New Spatial Concepts Between Innovation and Lock-in: The Case of the Dutch Deltametropolis

Lianne van Duinen

Planning Practice & Research, 2015, vol. 30, issue 5, 548-569

Abstract: It is often proclaimed that planning concepts serve an innovative function in the political process. They are praised as powerful tools that carry new insights and understandings into policy arenas. By examining the emergence and development of a new planning concept in the Dutch national spatial policy-making process, the deltametropolis concept, this paper questions this position. It argues that new spatial concepts tend to lose much of their innovative capacities when they enter the political arena and become encased in the traditional urban-rural planning discourse, thus reaffirming established planning orientations. The Dutch case of the deltametropolis illustrates that new spatial concepts may entail potential for innovation as much as for lock-in.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2015.1076155

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