Spatial Planning in the Network Society-Rethinking the Principles of Planning in the Netherlands

Maarten Hajer and Wil Zonneveld

European Planning Studies, 2000, vol. 8, issue 3, 337-355

Abstract: The Dutch planning system rejoices a very positive reputation in the international academic planning literature. Yet both the conceptual orientation and the institutional practices of Dutch planning are eroded. New institutional practices have emerged that effectively form a 'shadow structure' to the official planning system, eroding both its effectiveness and legitimacy. The article suggests that this instititutional development is to be understood against the background of larger processes of social change to which the system has so far not responded: the coming 'network society'. In light of this analysis it is suggested that Dutch planning could enhance both its effectiveness and legitimacy by reconsidering some of the basic features of the planning system.

Date: 2000
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