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.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Human Geography > Unit Political urbanism and sutainable spatial development
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Human Geography
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
11 Centers of Competence > Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED)

UniBE Contributor:

Verheij, Berit Jessica, Ay, Deniz, Gerber, Jean-David

Subjects:

900 History > 910 Geography & travel
700 Arts > 710 Landscaping & area planning
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics

ISSN:

1464-9357

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Funders:

[4] Swiss National Science Foundation

Projects:

[UNSPECIFIED] GoverDENSE

Language:

English

Submitter:

Berit Jessica Verheij

Date Deposited:

11 Sep 2023 08:06

Last Modified:

05 May 2024 19:56

Publisher DOI:

10.1080/14649357.2023.2239215

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/186175

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/186175

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