This paper addresses the current status of a PhD research on changing public and private roles in urban area development in the Netherlands. Socio-economic and organisational developments towards more Anglo Saxon principles, National spatial planning policy’s emphasis on the planning development concept and coercive tendering procedures of European Law puts established relationships between public and…

Dutch urban area development is faced with an increased influence of the private sector and a decreased influence of government bodies in decision-making processes. This results in a decreasing manageability of urban area development processes which leads to a change in the role and strategic conduct of the parties involved. Public and private parties are looking for new roles,…

Urban area development is more and more characterised by interdependencies between actors. Not one stakeholder is able to decide about the outcome of a development as a number of different interests are involved. However, urban area development is part of a broader social-economic context in which a number of changes appear nowadays. One major change…