Ensuring Public Access to Green Spaces in Urban Densification: The Role of Planning and Property Rights

Verheij, Jessica; Ay, Deniz; Gerber, Jean-David; Nahrath, Stéphane (2023). Ensuring Public Access to Green Spaces in Urban Densification: The Role of Planning and Property Rights. Planning Theory & Practice, 24(3), pp. 342-365. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/14649357.2023.2239215

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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.

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