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
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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
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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
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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