The paradox of planning the compact and green city: analyzing land-use change in Amsterdam and Brussels

Stella Balikçi, Mendel Giezen and Rowan Arundel

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2022, vol. 65, issue 13, 2387-2411

Abstract: Strategies applied by urban policy makers in order to achieve sustainable city development may be in conflict with each other because it crosses many disciplines and policy areas. This research focusses on the dilemma between compact city and urban greenspace policies and their influence on actual land-use change in Amsterdam and Brussels. These cases are selected because of their similar urban growth yet diverse policy and governance contexts. We contend that comparing how urban policies try to address this dilemma can provide a deeper understanding of how policy strategies affect land-use change. The results show that densification indeed decreases the quantity (Amsterdam: −4.7% Brussels: −11.9%), average size (A: −3.1% B: −25.6%) and connectivity of urban greenspaces. Observed land-use changes seem disconnected from purported urban greenspace policies, whereas urban development plans seem to dominate changes in greenspace quantity and form.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2021.1971069

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