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Why are new houses delivered in wrong locations, for wrong target groups and within wrong price-ranges, leaving diverse kinds of housing demand unmet? How can regional governance improve land-use decisions by participatingl municipalities? For what can local politicians be demanded to be accountable in those land-use decisions and how? This paper provides an analytic framework of three governance approaches focusing on accountability relationships and case-analyses to address the aforementioned questions.
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This paper is based on a study of regional housing planning in the province of South Holland, the Netherlands, and analyses three types of governance modes (hierarchical, horizontal and market-oriented) and public accountability relationships. The measures undertaken in the case under review to ensure effective regional housing planning under changing market circumstances highlight the need to modify accountability arrangements when policy-makers choose a new set of governance modes in order to shape relational dynamics appropriately.
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It was a great pleasure to write this article. Without understanding the role of the higher-level of government in local land-use decisions and the role of regional inter-municipal coordination, it is difficult to fully understand what have made Dutch public land development projects internationally a relative success. Despite of recent critics of active land policy in the Netherlands and a diminishing scale of public land development, planning capacities of municipalities embedded in regional governance remain important. Hierarchical governance approaches are required to support inter-municipal coordination to strengthen self-organising power of local authorities. Literature review and reflections on a case-study analysis will provide food for thought.
Vitnarae Kang
Technische Universiteit Delft
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This page is a summary of: Regional governance and public accountability in planning for new housing: A new approach in South Holland, the Netherlands, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2399654417733748.
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