Playing by the rules? Analysing incremental urban developments

Lilian van Karnenbeek and Leonie Janssen-Jansen

Land Use Policy, 2018, vol. 72, issue C, 402-409

Abstract: Current urban developments are often considered outdated and static, and the argument follows that they should become more adaptive. In this paper, we argue that existing urban development are already adaptive and incremental. Given this flexibility in urban development, understanding changes in the so-called ‘rules of the game’ which structure and change collective action, is increasingly relevant. Gaining such insights advances the ability of planners to deal with perceived spatial problems. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to develop an analytical framework for scrutinizing changes in rules in incremental urban developments and second, to test the analytical framework in a real-life incremental urban development. Building on Ostrom’s IAD Framework we develop an analytical framework that makes a distinction between formal and informal rules, connects sets of rules, actors and interaction patterns and provides a comparative, longitudinal perspective. The case of the Navy Yard in Amsterdam, the Netherlands is used in order to test the framework’s application, proving the relevance of investigating how rules in urban development change.

Keywords: Urban planning; Rules; Institutional change; Collective action; Incremental urban development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.12.021

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