Rule and Order Dutch Planning Doctrine in the Twentieth Century

This book is about an art in which the Netherlands excels: strategic planning. Foreign observers will need little convincing of the merits of Dutch planning. They will want to know whether routine explanations (small country, industrious, disciplined peop

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The GeoJournal Library Volume 28

Series Editor:

Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany

Editorial Board:

Paul Claval, France R. G. Crane, U.S.A. Yehuda Gradus, Israel Risto Laulajainen, Sweden Gerd Luttig, Germany Walther Manshard, Germany Osamu Nishikawa, Japan Peter Tyson, South Africa

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Rule and Order Dutch Planning Doctrine in the Twentieth Century by

ANDREAS FALUDI and

ARNOLD VAN DERVALK Institute for Planning and Demography, University of Amsterdam

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SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Faludl, Andreas. Rule and order Dutch planning doctrine ln the twentleth century I by Andreas Faludi, Arnold van der Valk. p.

cm.

Inc I udes index. ISBN 978-90-481-4347-4 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2927-7

ISBN 978-94-017-2927-7 (eBook)

1. City planning--Netherlands. 2_ Strateglc planning-Netherlands. 1. Valk, Arnoud van der_ II. Tltle. HT169.N4F344 1994 307.1 '216'09492--dc20

93-38215

ISBN 978-90-481-4347-4

Printed on acid-free paper

AII Rights Reserved © 1994 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1994 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduccd or utilized in any farm ar by any means, electronic ar mechanical, Illcluding photocopying, recarding ar by any infarmation starage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

To the memory of Professor Doctor Willem Steigenga with whose intellectual legacy we feel increasing affinity

CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface

xiii

Part 1 Background

1

1 2

The Concept of Planning Doctrine Context and Roots of Strategic Planning

ix

7 26

Part2 The Unfolding of Planning

45

3 4

51 68

"Planning Is Like Pregnancy, You Can't Have Just a Little" The Morning After: May lOth, 1940 and the Consequences

Part3 Reconstruction 5 6

Thinking on one's Feet A New Rationale

81 88 101

Part4 The Heyday

113

7 8 9 10

122 139 152 163

Planners Find Their Feet Doctrine at the Zenith Provincial Planning the Linchpin? The Taste of Success

PartS Crisis and Response 11 12 13

The Seeds of Doubt Forward Defense A Return to the Roots?

176 185 202 217

CONTENTS

viii

Part 6 Conclusions

232

14 15

246

Sharing the Blame (but not the Glory?) Lessons

Note on English Literature on Dutch Planning Bibliography of Works in English Footnotes Subject Index Index of Names Index of Places

233

263 265 274 289 305 311

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This book is the cumulative result of research conducted over the best part of a decade. Many students and researchers have been involved, and there is no way in which we could do justice to all their contributions, including numerous term papers, master theses and the like. Where appropriate, such sources are given in the bibliography and/or the footnotes. Here we want to single out a few special sources of inspiration. First amongst them is Peter de Ruijter, our friend and colleague,whom a cruel illness has removed f