Ensuring Public Access to Green Spaces in Urban Densification: The Role of Planning and Property Rights
Publisher DOI
Abstract
Implementing densification while ensuring green space accessibility is a crucial planning challenge. The powerful role of private for-profit actors densification projects mean that green spaces are at risk of being co-opted by private interests and transformed into club goods. Using a new-institutionalist approach, we analyse the implementation of densification and urban greening based on two case-studies in Switzerland and the Netherlands. We ask what planning strategies are successful in ensuring public access to green spaces in private-led densification. To counteract club formation, planners need to restrict property rights, actively monitor implementation of planning objectives, and ensure an open physical design.
Date Issued
2023-08-07
Publication Type
Article
Language(s)
en
Journal
Planning Theory & Practice
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
ISSN
1464-9357
Project(s)
GoverDENSE
Access(Rights)
open.access