Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Hartmann, Thomas and Jonkman, Arend 2021. Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands. European Planning Studies 29 (6) , pp. 1132-1150. 10.1080/09654313.2020.1817867

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Abstract

How do municipalities strategically use land policy to develop land for housing? The development of housing is a challenge for many European countries, though the scale and time of it differs. Issues are not always about the absolute number of houses that need to be supplied in a country. The distribution and quality of houses affect the demand for housing. Land policy determines where and how future developments take place, and as a result, it has a considerable impact on both supply and demand of housing. Municipalities use different strategies of land policy to pursue housing goals. This paper aims to explore the rationalities underpinning such strategies of land policy. Therefore, a theory on pluralism – Cultural Theory – is employed to understand municipal strategies in different contexts, i.e. Germany (Ruhr region), Belgium (Flanders), and Netherlands. Applying Cultural Theory to land policy results in four ideal-typical strategies of active, passive, reactive, and protective land policies. Despite the fact that the decisions of municipalities are made within (or constrained by) their institutional environments (i.e. national/regional planning systems, development cultures, etc.), we found that there are key similarities between the strategies of the studied municipalities regardless of their different institutional environments.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0965-4313
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	25 August 2020
Date of Acceptance:	21 August 2020
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 19:02
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/134316

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