Johan Woltjer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1519954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johan Woltjer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johan |
| FAMILY NAME | Woltjer |
| SIGNATURE | WOLTJER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3179-6294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From fragmentation to facilitation? Governing port-led metropolitan growth in West Java through Metropolitan by Design
Ports increasingly shape metropolitan development, yet governments often struggle to coordinate land use, infrastructure, and investment decisions related to port expansion. Fragmented authority and overlapping mandates limit planning authorities’ ability to coordinate development and align port expansion with supporting transport and industrial systems. Although strategic spatial planning has been promoted as a way of working within fragmented e…
Regional identity-building processes in the in-between spaces of city-regions
Mega-regionalisation is reshaping regional development patterns, drawing attention to both city-regions and ‘in-between spaces of city-regions’ (ISCRs) within a megaregional system. However, it remains unclear how regional identities emerge in such intermediary territories when infrastructure investment and corridor development reorganise territorial relations before a coherent region takes shape. Existing regional identity studies primarily focu…
Bundling transport infrastructure projects to achieve equitable development
Recent governance approaches bundle infrastructure projects into arrangements to promote equitable development. However, analyses of their multi-level governance (MLG) arrangements remain limited. We explore government intentions on how equity in transport infrastructure planning is addressed through various MLG arrangements for bundled project approaches in France, the Philippines, Colombia, South Korea and Thailand. The findings reveal an empha…
Community-based domestic water management in Indonesia
This study explores capacities of different community groups in Indonesia to successfully manage local domestic water resources, and the potential role of such groups in supporting equitable water access (SDG 6: clean water and sanitation). Using semi-structured interviews, mental mapping and observations, we zoom in on nine community groups located in Bandung City, Bandung Regency and West Bandung Regency. The findings indicate that community gr…
Special Economic Zones and the integration of spatial considerations
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are often framed as tools for regional development, yet research has largely overlooked how national regulatory design shapes their trajectories. This paper examines Indonesia, a decentralised archipelago with significant regional disparities, to assess how its SEZ legal and regulatory framework produces either isolated enclaves or place-based embedded outcomes. It offers a content analysis of SEZ-specific and sector…
Market mechanisms and low-income housing patterns in the context of urban growth
The private sector dominates low-income housing provision in both the Global North and South. Compared to the Global North, formal low-income housing in the Global South typically manifests as low-density urban sprawl. This study investigates how the layered motivations and strategies of developers shape low-income housing development patterns in the Bandung Metropolitan Area, Indonesia. Semi-structured interviews with 21 developers—14 focused on…
Localising and reimagining urban planning knowledge for effective Global South climate urbanism
This paper acknowledges the limitations of the current system of urban knowledge production concerning climate change and its applicability to the Global South. It explores whether climate urbanism pedagogy, emerging in higher education, takes effectively into consideration local contexts and how this translates into curricula innovation. Drawing on insights from 14 interviews with engaged scholars and practitioners, the paper argues that advanci…
Understanding informal mechanisms in integrated urban water management (Iuwm)
A paradigm shift from segregated water management to an integrated approach is receiving increasing attention since fragmentation affects urban water availability. Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) may enhance coordination between policies and actors, thereby establishing internal and external coherence for the efficient use of water resources, equitable and universal water distribution, and environmental conservation. However, studies on …
Maritime transport governance challenges in the Global South
The majority of problems in managing maritime transport originate from fragmented governance. The practice of coordinating decisions across different ports or between port and hinterland can pose a significant challenge in many countries. A related issue is that suggestions for maritime transport governance in the current literature are less clearly focused on the Global South. The present study aimed to identify challenges in improving the gover…
Regent’s Canal Cityscape
Since the 1990s, important regeneration processes have been carried out around urban waterfronts and canals. Urban waterways have undergone a transformation from industrial canals and navigation corridors towards focal points for revitalization and urban development. But, what new roles and values do the canals have as part of sustainable cities development? This article discusses the illustrative case of Regent's Canal, London. The aim is to rev…
Socio-spatial inequalities in flood resilience
This paper critically analyses socio-spatial inequalities associated with the shift towards flood resilience in flood risk management (FRM) and pays particular attention to the notion of ‘living with floods’ and its implications for citizens. Living with floods and the narrative of ‘surviving and thriving’ are emphasised within flood resilience literature, but such discussions often ignore the varying socio-spatial vulnerabilities and capacities …
Decentralized Implementation of Flood Resilience Measures – A Blessing or a Curse? Lessons from the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan and the Royal Docks Regeneration
This article presents a case study on the implementation of the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan in the Royal Docks, a regeneration project in the East of London. On paper, the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan advances the shift from traditional flood control to flood resilience, because of its long-term horizon, estuary-wide approach, and emphasis on floodplain management. In practice, however, we identify three frictions between vision and reality: a lack of l…
Water governance in decentralising urban Indonesia
Under new democratic regimes in the countries of the Global South, governance innovation is often found at the regional level. This article, using the concept of institutional capacity, shows that powerful efforts affecting regional water resource coordination emerge locally. The article analyses fresh water cooperation in the urban region of Cirebon, Indonesia. It is shown that the city and its surrounding regions in decentralising Indonesia sho…
Co-creating value through renewing waterway networks
Civil society contributions to local level flood resilience
There is an increasing emphasis on the local level as well as growing expectations regarding civil society actors in flood‐risk management in the UK . However, not enough is known about the potential contributions of civil society to flood resilience at the local level. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by conceptualising flood resilience at the local level across three phases inherent to flood disasters: pre‐flood, during the flood and pos…
Rules for the governance of coastal and marine ecosystem services
Gentrifying the peri-urban
This paper aims to specify the meaning of gentrification in rapidly peri-urbanising metropolitan regions in the context of Indonesia’s rapid transition to decentralisation and democracy. It discusses a case study of conflict over an environmental revitalisation project in a peri-urban area of Bandung City. The analysis focuses on the political processes, tactics and strategies supporting and opposing peri-urban gentrification and their consequenc…
Linking the ecosystem services approach to social preferences and needs in integrated coastal land use management – A planning approach
Value creation in capital waterway projects
Extended urbanization in small and medium-sized cities
Cultural Cooperation, Institution Building and Metropolitan Governance in Decentralizing I ndonesia
The institutional turn in metropolitan governance has been influenced to a considerable degree by a rational choice approach, which views metropolitan governance as essentially created by local actors to reduce the transaction costs of inter‐jurisdictional public‐service provision. Another influential theoretical route follows a historical approach, which emphasizes the role of the state structure in producing formal institutions to enable govern…
Industrial Land Development and Manufacturing Deconcentration in Greater Jakarta
Industrial land development has become a key feature of urbanization in Greater Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia. Following Suharto's market-oriented policy measures in the late 1980s, private developers have dominated the land development projects in Greater Jakarta. The article investigates the extent to which these private industrial centers have effectively reduced the domination of Jakarta in shaping the entir…
Inter-local government collaboration and perceived transaction costs in Indonesian metropolitan transport planning
The Indonesian reformation of 1998 marked a fundamental turning point of this country's democracy. In the administrative sector, the so-called Decentralisation Act 22/1999 was enacted to reform a formerly centralistic system. A strong central government used to maintain a hierarchical spatial planning system. It has been overruled, however, by the emergence of equally powered local governments. This paper discusses the relationship between Indone…
Policy networking as capacity building
This article explores the potential of policy networking as an important aspect of capacity building. It deals with a road development project related to the regional planning issue of North Bandung Area (NBA), a water catchment area facing the expansion of Bandung Metropolitan Area, West Java, Indonesia. The debate on the road development proposal is reconstructed to illustrate how an environmental policy network is built by committed experts, p…
British discretion in Dutch planning
Peri-urbanisation in East Asia
Spatial transformation in peri-urban areas has provided an emerging picture of the growth of many metropolitan regions in developing countries, In this paper, we present a new perspective on this transformation from the viewpoint of the developing and transitional countries of East Asia, and suggest its potential implications for planning and governance. First, we reveal the uniqueness of pen-urbanisation in these countries in relation to its dep…
Industrial Land Development and Manufacturing Deconcentration in Greater Jakarta
Industrial land development has become a key feature of urbanization in Greater Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia. Following Suharto's market-oriented policy measures in the late 1980s, private developers have dominated the land development projects in Greater Jakarta. The article investigates the extent to which these private industrial centers have effectively reduced the domination of Jakarta in shaping the entir…
Conflicts in urban fringe in the transformation era
Gentrifying the peri-urban
This paper aims to specify the meaning of gentrification in rapidly peri-urbanising metropolitan regions in the context of Indonesia’s rapid transition to decentralisation and democracy. It discusses a case study of conflict over an environmental revitalisation project in a peri-urban area of Bandung City. The analysis focuses on the political processes, tactics and strategies supporting and opposing peri-urban gentrification and their consequenc…
Extended urbanization in small and medium-sized cities
Consequences of governance restructuring for quality of urban living in the transformation era in Beijing
Civil society contributions to local level flood resilience
There is an increasing emphasis on the local level as well as growing expectations regarding civil society actors in flood‐risk management in the UK . However, not enough is known about the potential contributions of civil society to flood resilience at the local level. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by conceptualising flood resilience at the local level across three phases inherent to flood disasters: pre‐flood, during the flood and pos…
Linking the ecosystem services approach to social preferences and needs in integrated coastal land use management – A planning approach
Cultural Cooperation, Institution Building and Metropolitan Governance in Decentralizing I ndonesia
The institutional turn in metropolitan governance has been influenced to a considerable degree by a rational choice approach, which views metropolitan governance as essentially created by local actors to reduce the transaction costs of inter‐jurisdictional public‐service provision. Another influential theoretical route follows a historical approach, which emphasizes the role of the state structure in producing formal institutions to enable govern…
British discretion in Dutch planning
Growth management and decentralisation
This article provides an empirical analysis of the performance of urban containment policies in Beijing in the 1990s. The results show that the objectives of the municipal urban containment policies have been partly achieved through actual local developments. Overall urban compactness was enhanced. The planned peripheral constellations witnessed dramatic population and density growth. However, some unexpected growth and urban sprawl in outer subu…
Socio-spatial inequalities in flood resilience
This paper critically analyses socio-spatial inequalities associated with the shift towards flood resilience in flood risk management (FRM) and pays particular attention to the notion of ‘living with floods’ and its implications for citizens. Living with floods and the narrative of ‘surviving and thriving’ are emphasised within flood resilience literature, but such discussions often ignore the varying socio-spatial vulnerabilities and capacities …
Policy networking as capacity building
This article explores the potential of policy networking as an important aspect of capacity building. It deals with a road development project related to the regional planning issue of North Bandung Area (NBA), a water catchment area facing the expansion of Bandung Metropolitan Area, West Java, Indonesia. The debate on the road development proposal is reconstructed to illustrate how an environmental policy network is built by committed experts, p…
Co-creating value through renewing waterway networks
Rules for the governance of coastal and marine ecosystem services
Value creation in capital waterway projects
Inter-local government collaboration and perceived transaction costs in Indonesian metropolitan transport planning
The Indonesian reformation of 1998 marked a fundamental turning point of this country's democracy. In the administrative sector, the so-called Decentralisation Act 22/1999 was enacted to reform a formerly centralistic system. A strong central government used to maintain a hierarchical spatial planning system. It has been overruled, however, by the emergence of equally powered local governments. This paper discusses the relationship between Indone…
Planning by Opportunity
In this paper we seek to extend ideas about communicative planning and capacity building in collective action. In doing so, we combine political opportunity structure and Kingdon's policy window in order to develop an agency-centered approach to opportunity. We argue that we need to see the moments and structures of opportunity not simply as fixed, but as something that actors can 'make'. The moments of opportunity refer to the dynamic, emerging …
De Positie Van Curatoren Der Leidse Universiteit in De Zestiende Eeuw
The 'Public Support Machine'
(2002). The 'Public Support Machine': Notions of the Function of Participatory Planning by Dutch Infrastructure Planners. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 437-453
Peri-urbanisation in East Asia
Spatial transformation in peri-urban areas has provided an emerging picture of the growth of many metropolitan regions in developing countries, In this paper, we present a new perspective on this transformation from the viewpoint of the developing and transitional countries of East Asia, and suggest its potential implications for planning and governance. First, we reveal the uniqueness of pen-urbanisation in these countries in relation to its dep…
Growth management and decentralisation
This article provides an empirical analysis of the performance of urban containment policies in Beijing in the 1990s. The results show that the objectives of the municipal urban containment policies have been partly achieved through actual local developments. Overall urban compactness was enhanced. The planned peripheral constellations witnessed dramatic population and density growth. However, some unexpected growth and urban sprawl in outer subu…
Conflicts in urban fringe in the transformation era
Consequences of governance restructuring for quality of urban living in the transformation era in Beijing
Inter-local government collaboration and perceived transaction costs in Indonesian metropolitan transport planning
The Indonesian reformation of 1998 marked a fundamental turning point of this country's democracy. In the administrative sector, the so-called Decentralisation Act 22/1999 was enacted to reform a formerly centralistic system. A strong central government used to maintain a hierarchical spatial planning system. It has been overruled, however, by the emergence of equally powered local governments. This paper discusses the relationship between Indone…
Policy networking as capacity building
This article explores the potential of policy networking as an important aspect of capacity building. It deals with a road development project related to the regional planning issue of North Bandung Area (NBA), a water catchment area facing the expansion of Bandung Metropolitan Area, West Java, Indonesia. The debate on the road development proposal is reconstructed to illustrate how an environmental policy network is built by committed experts, p…
British discretion in Dutch planning
Planning by Opportunity
In this paper we seek to extend ideas about communicative planning and capacity building in collective action. In doing so, we combine political opportunity structure and Kingdon's policy window in order to develop an agency-centered approach to opportunity. We argue that we need to see the moments and structures of opportunity not simply as fixed, but as something that actors can 'make'. The moments of opportunity refer to the dynamic, emerging …
Cultural Cooperation, Institution Building and Metropolitan Governance in Decentralizing I ndonesia
The institutional turn in metropolitan governance has been influenced to a considerable degree by a rational choice approach, which views metropolitan governance as essentially created by local actors to reduce the transaction costs of inter‐jurisdictional public‐service provision. Another influential theoretical route follows a historical approach, which emphasizes the role of the state structure in producing formal institutions to enable govern…
Industrial Land Development and Manufacturing Deconcentration in Greater Jakarta
Industrial land development has become a key feature of urbanization in Greater Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia. Following Suharto's market-oriented policy measures in the late 1980s, private developers have dominated the land development projects in Greater Jakarta. The article investigates the extent to which these private industrial centers have effectively reduced the domination of Jakarta in shaping the entir…
Linking the ecosystem services approach to social preferences and needs in integrated coastal land use management – A planning approach
Value creation in capital waterway projects
Extended urbanization in small and medium-sized cities
Rules for the governance of coastal and marine ecosystem services
Gentrifying the peri-urban
This paper aims to specify the meaning of gentrification in rapidly peri-urbanising metropolitan regions in the context of Indonesia’s rapid transition to decentralisation and democracy. It discusses a case study of conflict over an environmental revitalisation project in a peri-urban area of Bandung City. The analysis focuses on the political processes, tactics and strategies supporting and opposing peri-urban gentrification and their consequenc…
Co-creating value through renewing waterway networks
Civil society contributions to local level flood resilience
There is an increasing emphasis on the local level as well as growing expectations regarding civil society actors in flood‐risk management in the UK . However, not enough is known about the potential contributions of civil society to flood resilience at the local level. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by conceptualising flood resilience at the local level across three phases inherent to flood disasters: pre‐flood, during the flood and pos…
Decentralized Implementation of Flood Resilience Measures – A Blessing or a Curse? Lessons from the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan and the Royal Docks Regeneration
This article presents a case study on the implementation of the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan in the Royal Docks, a regeneration project in the East of London. On paper, the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan advances the shift from traditional flood control to flood resilience, because of its long-term horizon, estuary-wide approach, and emphasis on floodplain management. In practice, however, we identify three frictions between vision and reality: a lack of l…
Water governance in decentralising urban Indonesia
Under new democratic regimes in the countries of the Global South, governance innovation is often found at the regional level. This article, using the concept of institutional capacity, shows that powerful efforts affecting regional water resource coordination emerge locally. The article analyses fresh water cooperation in the urban region of Cirebon, Indonesia. It is shown that the city and its surrounding regions in decentralising Indonesia sho…
Socio-spatial inequalities in flood resilience
This paper critically analyses socio-spatial inequalities associated with the shift towards flood resilience in flood risk management (FRM) and pays particular attention to the notion of ‘living with floods’ and its implications for citizens. Living with floods and the narrative of ‘surviving and thriving’ are emphasised within flood resilience literature, but such discussions often ignore the varying socio-spatial vulnerabilities and capacities …
Regent’s Canal Cityscape
Since the 1990s, important regeneration processes have been carried out around urban waterfronts and canals. Urban waterways have undergone a transformation from industrial canals and navigation corridors towards focal points for revitalization and urban development. But, what new roles and values do the canals have as part of sustainable cities development? This article discusses the illustrative case of Regent's Canal, London. The aim is to rev…
Maritime transport governance challenges in the Global South
The majority of problems in managing maritime transport originate from fragmented governance. The practice of coordinating decisions across different ports or between port and hinterland can pose a significant challenge in many countries. A related issue is that suggestions for maritime transport governance in the current literature are less clearly focused on the Global South. The present study aimed to identify challenges in improving the gover…
Localising and reimagining urban planning knowledge for effective Global South climate urbanism
This paper acknowledges the limitations of the current system of urban knowledge production concerning climate change and its applicability to the Global South. It explores whether climate urbanism pedagogy, emerging in higher education, takes effectively into consideration local contexts and how this translates into curricula innovation. Drawing on insights from 14 interviews with engaged scholars and practitioners, the paper argues that advanci…
Geography (21 works) · Business (20 works) · Economics (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Environmental planning (16 works) · Corporate governance (13 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (11 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (10 works) · Metropolitan area (9 works)