Edwin Buitelaar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1521817 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Edwin Buitelaar |
| NOMBRES | Edwin |
| APELLIDO | Buitelaar |
| FIRMA | BUITELAAR E |
| AFILIACIONES | Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0558-6165 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 179 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Making sense of The Just City. Defining, choosing, and applying different conceptions of urban justice
The Just City is a concept of justice that has gained traction in both planning theory and practice. Despite its popularity, the definition of alternative conceptions, the tradeoffs between them, and thinking them through systematically towards policy measures, has received less attention. The goal of this paper is to provide a framework that helps to inform academic and policy discussions about planning for urban justice. In doing so, it draws o…
Regulate or Be Regulated
Zoning is one of the key roles of land use regulation by the state. In engaging with this land use regulation, developers do not stay put and passively await rules to be imposed upon them. Instead, they proactively seek to (co)produce new rules or change existing rules to their advantage: they are ‘institutional entrepreneurs.’ We analyze how institutional entrepreneurship strategies play out empirically in Rijnenburg, a large greenfield site loc…
A dynamic justice framework for analyzing conceptions of justice
In the reality of planning practice, where there is usually no a priori ‘right’ substantive conception of justice to guide and evaluate decision making, conceptions are negotiated between stakeholders. Moreover, these conceptions vary in space and time. The existing academic discussion on justice in planning provides limited insight in and guidance for how to navigate the plurality of conceivable and valid substantive conceptions of justice that …
What drives developers? Understanding vertical (dis)integration strategies in the land development process
Real estate developers play a crucial role in the production of our cities. Yet, the knowledge about how they operate is limited. They are often portrayed as a homogeneous group, while in practice we see a large variety of different types of developers and of their strategies. Particularly striking are the differences in the extent to which real estate developers cover the land development process. Some limit themselves to development, while othe…
Public Entrepreneurship in Private Land Markets
Most planning theories are based on the assumption that there is a homogenous public interest. However, planning agencies are driven by multiple and conflicting interests in practice. This article conceptualises and empirically investigates these interests in an “extreme case” of active public land policy: the Dutch state selling Amsterdam’s Bijlmer prison. Three types of dilemmas or conflicting interests that arose in the Bijlmer prison case are…
Just housing. The moral foundations of American housing policy
Planning is Zoning
It was with great interest that I read Professor Lai’s piece in which he tries to define ‘town planning’. This is a brave attempt in the challenging format of a dialogue, a form he seems to be keen
Building obsolescence in the evolving city. Reframing property vacancy and abandonment in the light of urban dynamics and complexity
This conceptual article analyses how both policymakers and academics often discuss the state of buildings. Property vacancy and abandonment are generally approached statically, in an undifferentiated way and responded to with ad hoc public policies. However, there is great variety in the causes and effects of a building's state of affairs. This article adopts a more complex and dynamic view of building obsolescence to better understand the develo…
Public Design of Urban Sprawl
Urban sprawl is often portrayed as a (quasi-)natural process, as inevitable and taking place behind our backs. However, we claim that it is co-produced by government: Governments not only allow sprawl to happen, but often also incentivise and stimulate it, either knowingly or unintentionally. We substantiate this claim by comparing urban development and government institutions in Flanders (Belgium) to the Netherlands, two neighbouring territories…
Exploring the feasibility of future housing development within existing cities
In cities around the world, housing demand is increasing rapidly. Since housing supply is inelastic, house prices are rising as well, which causes affordability problems. Although there is consensus about the need to raise production, there is debate about its location: within the existing city, on underused or derelict buildings and sites, or on greenfield land outside existing city boundaries? The question we address is how researchers on the s…
If neoliberalism is everything, maybe it is nothing
The (ir)relevance of economic segregation. Jane Jacobs and the empirical and moral implications of an unequal spatial distribution of wealth
Simple Planning Rules for Complex Urban Problems
In the course of the nineteenth century, many countries attempted to simplify their regulatory systems; since then, however, the entire legal apparatus has become ever more complex, being based on the (debatable) notion that law must mirror the growing complexity of society. Owing to this presumption, complex land-use and building issues have rapidly generated a host of equally intricate rules. However, some critics have argued that complex syste…
Cities, Economic Inequality and Justice
Increasing economic inequality in cities, and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods, is top of the political agenda in developed countries. While the overall living standards have increased in the last century, the focus has now shifted from poverty to economic differences, with a particular focus on the gap between the very poor and the (ultra-)rich. The authors observe a common view among policy-makers and research…
Self‐Organisation in Oosterwold, Almere
Attention to self‐organisation and spontaneous order in urban development is growing both in academia and in planning practice. One of the current academic discussions centres around the desirability of self‐organisation. This paper evaluates the case of self‐organisation in Oosterwold Almere in the Netherlands — an atypical case as it is a large‐scale experimental project of organic urban development. We analysed how this case deals with traditi…
Factors that influence transaction costs in development offsets
The embeddedness of inclusionary housing in planning and housing systems
Third-party appeal rights and the regulatory state
Intermediaries in environmental offset markets
The Emergence of Inclusionary Housing
After being introduced in the US in the 1970s, inclusionary housing is now found around the world. Even the Netherlands, which is known for its tradition of public land and housing provision, has adopted it. The aim of this paper is to trace how this change occurred by applying a theory of institutional change. This theory regards institutional change as a two-stage event. Critical junctures for institutional change are preceded by a critical mom…
Urban Structures and Land. The Morphological Effects of Dealing with Property Rights
Urban regeneration is an increasingly important but complex business. One factor that is widely recognised as adding to the complexity is the fragmentation of landownership. However, not only does this affect the process, it also reveals itself in the outcome of urban regeneration—the urban morphology. Property rights theory helps to conceptualise this relationship. On the basis of this and two empirical cases, this paper demonstrates that the as…
Institutions in Theories of Land Markets
Theories of land markets should be intellectually sound and should be able to explain and predict market outcomes, such as price and volume of transactions, changes in these and locations of different land uses. Theories based on neo-classical economics, which largely ignore the role of institutions, are not intellectually sound because it is known that markets cannot work without institutions. Nor do these theories predict outcomes satisfactoril…
Plan-Led Planning Systems in Development-Led Practices
Planning laws are usually made with good intentions, but do not always lead to good results-at least not when measured against their own goals. Since July 2008 the Netherlands has had a new planning act which aims for a plan-led system and a stronger role of the land-use plan in providing a framework for building permits-instead of these being granted through exemptions from the land-use plan-and in guiding spatial development. On the basis of qu…
Between the rule of law and the quest for control
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
When I received this book on my doormat – we had just entered the era of corona, which made the editor send it to my home address instead of my university pigeonhole – I braced myself. The book tit
A Transaction-cost Analysis of the Land Development Process
The production of our built environment involves many transaction costs. We want to avoid unnecessary transaction costs. Nevertheless, we hardly take account of transaction costs when considering different ways of organising the development process. The most important reason is probably the difficulty in identifying them. This paper shows why transaction costs are important and offers a method for identifying them. With this method, it is possibl…
A Theory of Institutional Change
Since the early 1990s, planning theory has focused on the issue of institutional change. Not only does institutional change have clear bearings on processes of spatial planning, it is also, increasingly, seen as an object of planning. A core concept in the literature is the juxtaposition of 'institutional design' and 'institutional evolution'. Yet, in understanding processes and the role of institutional change, this dichotomy does not appear to …
Window on the Netherlands
In the international literature and discussions on land management, Dutch land policy is often presented as a special case, sometimes even as a role model for other countries. However, in recent years this policy has come under pressure as a consequence of institutional changes in the housing market, the social housing sector, spatial policy and European competition rules. This paper intends to unravel these changes and their effect on Dutch land…
Between the rule of law and the quest for control
Plan-Led Planning Systems in Development-Led Practices
Planning laws are usually made with good intentions, but do not always lead to good results-at least not when measured against their own goals. Since July 2008 the Netherlands has had a new planning act which aims for a plan-led system and a stronger role of the land-use plan in providing a framework for building permits-instead of these being granted through exemptions from the land-use plan-and in guiding spatial development. On the basis of qu…
Intermediaries in environmental offset markets
Institutions in Theories of Land Markets
Theories of land markets should be intellectually sound and should be able to explain and predict market outcomes, such as price and volume of transactions, changes in these and locations of different land uses. Theories based on neo-classical economics, which largely ignore the role of institutions, are not intellectually sound because it is known that markets cannot work without institutions. Nor do these theories predict outcomes satisfactoril…
Building obsolescence in the evolving city. Reframing property vacancy and abandonment in the light of urban dynamics and complexity
This conceptual article analyses how both policymakers and academics often discuss the state of buildings. Property vacancy and abandonment are generally approached statically, in an undifferentiated way and responded to with ad hoc public policies. However, there is great variety in the causes and effects of a building's state of affairs. This article adopts a more complex and dynamic view of building obsolescence to better understand the develo…
Simple Planning Rules for Complex Urban Problems
In the course of the nineteenth century, many countries attempted to simplify their regulatory systems; since then, however, the entire legal apparatus has become ever more complex, being based on the (debatable) notion that law must mirror the growing complexity of society. Owing to this presumption, complex land-use and building issues have rapidly generated a host of equally intricate rules. However, some critics have argued that complex syste…
The Emergence of Inclusionary Housing
After being introduced in the US in the 1970s, inclusionary housing is now found around the world. Even the Netherlands, which is known for its tradition of public land and housing provision, has adopted it. The aim of this paper is to trace how this change occurred by applying a theory of institutional change. This theory regards institutional change as a two-stage event. Critical junctures for institutional change are preceded by a critical mom…
The embeddedness of inclusionary housing in planning and housing systems
Urban Structures and Land. The Morphological Effects of Dealing with Property Rights
Urban regeneration is an increasingly important but complex business. One factor that is widely recognised as adding to the complexity is the fragmentation of landownership. However, not only does this affect the process, it also reveals itself in the outcome of urban regeneration—the urban morphology. Property rights theory helps to conceptualise this relationship. On the basis of this and two empirical cases, this paper demonstrates that the as…
A dynamic justice framework for analyzing conceptions of justice
In the reality of planning practice, where there is usually no a priori ‘right’ substantive conception of justice to guide and evaluate decision making, conceptions are negotiated between stakeholders. Moreover, these conceptions vary in space and time. The existing academic discussion on justice in planning provides limited insight in and guidance for how to navigate the plurality of conceivable and valid substantive conceptions of justice that …
Self‐Organisation in Oosterwold, Almere
Attention to self‐organisation and spontaneous order in urban development is growing both in academia and in planning practice. One of the current academic discussions centres around the desirability of self‐organisation. This paper evaluates the case of self‐organisation in Oosterwold Almere in the Netherlands — an atypical case as it is a large‐scale experimental project of organic urban development. We analysed how this case deals with traditi…
Third-party appeal rights and the regulatory state
Steering local housing production
This paper presents an analytical framework that allows us to evaluate the performance of dynamic governance structures. In housing development processes, governance structures—markets, hierarchies and network or relational structures—change as the process proceeds, and so do the goals that are set by all stakeholders, including local authorities. A framework for evaluation is set out that takes account of this temporal component. It is applied e…
What drives developers? Understanding vertical (dis)integration strategies in the land development process
Real estate developers play a crucial role in the production of our cities. Yet, the knowledge about how they operate is limited. They are often portrayed as a homogeneous group, while in practice we see a large variety of different types of developers and of their strategies. Particularly striking are the differences in the extent to which real estate developers cover the land development process. Some limit themselves to development, while othe…
If neoliberalism is everything, maybe it is nothing
A Transaction-cost Analysis of the Land Development Process
The production of our built environment involves many transaction costs. We want to avoid unnecessary transaction costs. Nevertheless, we hardly take account of transaction costs when considering different ways of organising the development process. The most important reason is probably the difficulty in identifying them. This paper shows why transaction costs are important and offers a method for identifying them. With this method, it is possibl…
A Theory of Institutional Change
Since the early 1990s, planning theory has focused on the issue of institutional change. Not only does institutional change have clear bearings on processes of spatial planning, it is also, increasingly, seen as an object of planning. A core concept in the literature is the juxtaposition of 'institutional design' and 'institutional evolution'. Yet, in understanding processes and the role of institutional change, this dichotomy does not appear to …
Steering local housing production
This paper presents an analytical framework that allows us to evaluate the performance of dynamic governance structures. In housing development processes, governance structures—markets, hierarchies and network or relational structures—change as the process proceeds, and so do the goals that are set by all stakeholders, including local authorities. A framework for evaluation is set out that takes account of this temporal component. It is applied e…
Between the rule of law and the quest for control
Window on the Netherlands
In the international literature and discussions on land management, Dutch land policy is often presented as a special case, sometimes even as a role model for other countries. However, in recent years this policy has come under pressure as a consequence of institutional changes in the housing market, the social housing sector, spatial policy and European competition rules. This paper intends to unravel these changes and their effect on Dutch land…
The Emergence of Inclusionary Housing
After being introduced in the US in the 1970s, inclusionary housing is now found around the world. Even the Netherlands, which is known for its tradition of public land and housing provision, has adopted it. The aim of this paper is to trace how this change occurred by applying a theory of institutional change. This theory regards institutional change as a two-stage event. Critical junctures for institutional change are preceded by a critical mom…
Urban Structures and Land. The Morphological Effects of Dealing with Property Rights
Urban regeneration is an increasingly important but complex business. One factor that is widely recognised as adding to the complexity is the fragmentation of landownership. However, not only does this affect the process, it also reveals itself in the outcome of urban regeneration—the urban morphology. Property rights theory helps to conceptualise this relationship. On the basis of this and two empirical cases, this paper demonstrates that the as…
Institutions in Theories of Land Markets
Theories of land markets should be intellectually sound and should be able to explain and predict market outcomes, such as price and volume of transactions, changes in these and locations of different land uses. Theories based on neo-classical economics, which largely ignore the role of institutions, are not intellectually sound because it is known that markets cannot work without institutions. Nor do these theories predict outcomes satisfactoril…
Plan-Led Planning Systems in Development-Led Practices
Planning laws are usually made with good intentions, but do not always lead to good results-at least not when measured against their own goals. Since July 2008 the Netherlands has had a new planning act which aims for a plan-led system and a stronger role of the land-use plan in providing a framework for building permits-instead of these being granted through exemptions from the land-use plan-and in guiding spatial development. On the basis of qu…
Factors that influence transaction costs in development offsets
The embeddedness of inclusionary housing in planning and housing systems
Third-party appeal rights and the regulatory state
Intermediaries in environmental offset markets
Cities, Economic Inequality and Justice
Increasing economic inequality in cities, and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods, is top of the political agenda in developed countries. While the overall living standards have increased in the last century, the focus has now shifted from poverty to economic differences, with a particular focus on the gap between the very poor and the (ultra-)rich. The authors observe a common view among policy-makers and research…
Self‐Organisation in Oosterwold, Almere
Attention to self‐organisation and spontaneous order in urban development is growing both in academia and in planning practice. One of the current academic discussions centres around the desirability of self‐organisation. This paper evaluates the case of self‐organisation in Oosterwold Almere in the Netherlands — an atypical case as it is a large‐scale experimental project of organic urban development. We analysed how this case deals with traditi…
Simple Planning Rules for Complex Urban Problems
In the course of the nineteenth century, many countries attempted to simplify their regulatory systems; since then, however, the entire legal apparatus has become ever more complex, being based on the (debatable) notion that law must mirror the growing complexity of society. Owing to this presumption, complex land-use and building issues have rapidly generated a host of equally intricate rules. However, some critics have argued that complex syste…
The (ir)relevance of economic segregation. Jane Jacobs and the empirical and moral implications of an unequal spatial distribution of wealth
Public Design of Urban Sprawl
Urban sprawl is often portrayed as a (quasi-)natural process, as inevitable and taking place behind our backs. However, we claim that it is co-produced by government: Governments not only allow sprawl to happen, but often also incentivise and stimulate it, either knowingly or unintentionally. We substantiate this claim by comparing urban development and government institutions in Flanders (Belgium) to the Netherlands, two neighbouring territories…
Exploring the feasibility of future housing development within existing cities
In cities around the world, housing demand is increasing rapidly. Since housing supply is inelastic, house prices are rising as well, which causes affordability problems. Although there is consensus about the need to raise production, there is debate about its location: within the existing city, on underused or derelict buildings and sites, or on greenfield land outside existing city boundaries? The question we address is how researchers on the s…
If neoliberalism is everything, maybe it is nothing
Planning is Zoning
It was with great interest that I read Professor Lai’s piece in which he tries to define ‘town planning’. This is a brave attempt in the challenging format of a dialogue, a form he seems to be keen
Building obsolescence in the evolving city. Reframing property vacancy and abandonment in the light of urban dynamics and complexity
This conceptual article analyses how both policymakers and academics often discuss the state of buildings. Property vacancy and abandonment are generally approached statically, in an undifferentiated way and responded to with ad hoc public policies. However, there is great variety in the causes and effects of a building's state of affairs. This article adopts a more complex and dynamic view of building obsolescence to better understand the develo…
Public Entrepreneurship in Private Land Markets
Most planning theories are based on the assumption that there is a homogenous public interest. However, planning agencies are driven by multiple and conflicting interests in practice. This article conceptualises and empirically investigates these interests in an “extreme case” of active public land policy: the Dutch state selling Amsterdam’s Bijlmer prison. Three types of dilemmas or conflicting interests that arose in the Bijlmer prison case are…
Just housing. The moral foundations of American housing policy
What drives developers? Understanding vertical (dis)integration strategies in the land development process
Real estate developers play a crucial role in the production of our cities. Yet, the knowledge about how they operate is limited. They are often portrayed as a homogeneous group, while in practice we see a large variety of different types of developers and of their strategies. Particularly striking are the differences in the extent to which real estate developers cover the land development process. Some limit themselves to development, while othe…
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