Dutch Land-Use Planning

摘要

The new edition of the book 'Dutch Land-use Planning. The Principles and the Practice', first published in 2007, with 8 chapters, seeks to explain how land-use planning in the Netherlands works and how it is related with what takes place on the ground. As Barrie Needham refers, the book has two aims: first, to assess if the Dutch spatial planning realise what it sets out to achieve; and second, to assess the processes by which government bodies pursue their spatial planning. The author offers a different vision of Dutch land-use planning, which will certainly be useful for all those planners that often tend to see the Netherlands as a model in the field of spatial planning. If it is certain that the book illustrates well why Dutch planning is so praised by the planning community around the world, it is also clear that the author does not follow an uncritical view of the Dutch planning practice, an approach that makes this book mandatory reading for all those interested in the history of Dutch urban and regional spatial planning.