What the public and private roles should be is one of the main issues in contemporary urban development. This paper builds upon findings from international-oriented Master and PhD studies at the TU Delft. It advocates for adaptive public leadership on a strategic level, and calls for committed private leadership on a tactical level. We argue that – when applied…

The management of urban development projects in the Netherlands has changed significantly in recent years. These projects have become mainly ‘led’ by developers as they manage the entire life cycle of development projects, while public actors mainly facilitate development projects. This changes the way projects are organized and managed and might resolve in different outcomes. Therefore, this research aims…

De laatste decennia is de rol van marktpartijen bij gebiedsontwikkeling steeds groter geworden. In dit kader is er in het laatste 10 jaar een toenemend aantal projecten uitgevoerd op basis van het concessiemodel. Deze ontwikkelstrategie kenmerkt zich door een strikte publiek-private rolverdeling waarbij een groot deel van de traditionele overheidstaken en risico’s wordt overgedragen aan…

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,…

The Urban Decision Room (UDR) should be placed in the tradition of urban design and planning discipline that is taught, and into which research is carried out, at the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. The UDR was developed at the faculty as one of the new design and planning methods with…

This paper describes the development and experimental application of a land use planning tool based on Preference Measurement modelling. The paper focuses on the decision-making process in the orientation phase of the urban land use planning for a future Olympic Summer Games in the Netherlands. The aim of the project is the development of a decision support tool…

Onderwerp van mijn afstudeeronderzoek is de mogelijke toekomstige organisatie van de Olympische Spelen in Nederland. Het NOC*NSF is recentelijk (maart 2005) gestart met een onderzoek naar de haalbaarheid van het evenement in 2028. In het kader van dit initiatief is er behoefte ontstaan om een wetenschappelijke bijdrage te leveren. Het afstudeeronderzoek focust zich op het…