TY - JOUR
T1 - Planning the neighbourhood economy
T2 - land-use plans and the economic potential of urban residential neighbourhoods in the Netherlands
AU - Folmer, Emma
AU - Risselada, Anne
PY - 2013/12/24
Y1 - 2013/12/24
N2 - This article investigates the relationship between zoning by-laws, as put forward in governmental land-use plans and the viability of urban residential neighbourhood economies. The Dutch planning tradition has long been characterized by strict separation of functions and top-down planning. We argue that profound changes in social and economic structures make land-use planning practices less suitable for the current policy formula of "mixed urban milieus". Although the residential neighbourhood might not be the location of large firms, it definitely attracts small ones, and facilitates starting businesses whose presence (and potential growth) can be beneficial to the city as a whole. We present a typology of spatial patterns of neighbourhood economies based on land-use plans and describe whether these are related to the distinctive economic development of the neighbourhood over the period 1999-2007.
AB - This article investigates the relationship between zoning by-laws, as put forward in governmental land-use plans and the viability of urban residential neighbourhood economies. The Dutch planning tradition has long been characterized by strict separation of functions and top-down planning. We argue that profound changes in social and economic structures make land-use planning practices less suitable for the current policy formula of "mixed urban milieus". Although the residential neighbourhood might not be the location of large firms, it definitely attracts small ones, and facilitates starting businesses whose presence (and potential growth) can be beneficial to the city as a whole. We present a typology of spatial patterns of neighbourhood economies based on land-use plans and describe whether these are related to the distinctive economic development of the neighbourhood over the period 1999-2007.
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UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09654313.2012.722965#
U2 - 10.1080/09654313.2012.722965
DO - 10.1080/09654313.2012.722965
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84875498803
SN - 0965-4313
VL - 21
SP - 1873
EP - 1894
JO - European Planning Studies
JF - European Planning Studies
IS - 12
ER -