Joks Janssen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joks Janssen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joks |
| FAMILY NAME | Janssen |
| SIGNATURE | JANSSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8878-9672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reinventing Dutch national spatial planning
Over recent decades, Dutch spatial planning shifted from strong national direction towards increasing decentralization. Today, urgent societal challenges such as housing, energy, and climate adaptation are reigniting calls for a renewed national role. This paper examines the current turnaround in Dutch planning debates and explores future options. Drawing on an advisory report of the Dutch Council for the Environment and Infrastructure, we outlin…
Religiously inspired urbanism
The discourse on twentieth-century urban planning has hidden from view the way religion (re)shaped the urban landscape. By analysing the interaction between urban development and Catholic politics in the southern Dutch provincial cities of Eindhoven and Roermond, this article argues that religious thinking, practice and institutions had considerable influence on urban planning. Religious views and ideas played an important role in the spatial tra…
Modernising Dutch Heritage Conservation
Over the last decades, Dutch heritage conservation shifted from a preservationist and object‐focused to an area‐based and development‐oriented activity. Today's heritage management looks not only at the monument itself, but at its spatial context. The Belvedere Memorandum in 1999 has played a key role in getting the heritage onto the spatial planning agenda. Linking heritage to the spatial challenges of cities and regions was also the primary goa…
Heritage planning and spatial development in the Netherlands
In recent years, the separation of heritage conservation concerns and spatial planning concerns – a spectre of post-war modernism – is being criticised. Numerous commentators argue that heritage conservation needs to rethink its purpose and role if it is to maintain its place in the planning system specifically and urban and rural development more generally. This paper analyses the Belvedere Memorandum and its incentive programme (1999–2009) by w…
Sustainable development and protected landscapes
In 2004, the Dutch government published a policy paper on spatial planning that sets out a framework for the designation of so-called ‘National Landscapes’, large areas of inhabited countryside with specific historic elements, geomorphology, natural character and openness. This represents the latest attempt to introduce IUCN Category V protected areas into the Netherlands. National Landscapes are of international importance because they are eithe…
Towards a synergy between ‘content’ and ‘process’ in Dutch spatial planning
Spatial planning in the Netherlands is shifting from regulatory toward more developmental modes of planning. This paper explores the background of these changes and discusses current approaches to developmental planning, especially in rural areas. It combines views reflected in planning theory with the accumulated experiences of a project in the southern part of the Netherlands, called Heuvelland. The Heuvelland project is aimed at the mobilisati…
The Heritage of the Productive Landscape
In the current debate about the future of the Dutch countryside, more and more attention is drawn to the role of landscape heritage. Spatial designers are asked to translate historic identities into spatial forms in order to bridge the gap between past and future. Special cultural heritage policies are developed to stimulate a shift in design practice and to increase awareness of the value of cultural landscapes. Because interpretation of the rur…
Heritage planning and spatial development in the Netherlands
In recent years, the separation of heritage conservation concerns and spatial planning concerns – a spectre of post-war modernism – is being criticised. Numerous commentators argue that heritage conservation needs to rethink its purpose and role if it is to maintain its place in the planning system specifically and urban and rural development more generally. This paper analyses the Belvedere Memorandum and its incentive programme (1999–2009) by w…
The Heritage of the Productive Landscape
In the current debate about the future of the Dutch countryside, more and more attention is drawn to the role of landscape heritage. Spatial designers are asked to translate historic identities into spatial forms in order to bridge the gap between past and future. Special cultural heritage policies are developed to stimulate a shift in design practice and to increase awareness of the value of cultural landscapes. Because interpretation of the rur…
Towards a synergy between ‘content’ and ‘process’ in Dutch spatial planning
Spatial planning in the Netherlands is shifting from regulatory toward more developmental modes of planning. This paper explores the background of these changes and discusses current approaches to developmental planning, especially in rural areas. It combines views reflected in planning theory with the accumulated experiences of a project in the southern part of the Netherlands, called Heuvelland. The Heuvelland project is aimed at the mobilisati…
Religiously inspired urbanism
The discourse on twentieth-century urban planning has hidden from view the way religion (re)shaped the urban landscape. By analysing the interaction between urban development and Catholic politics in the southern Dutch provincial cities of Eindhoven and Roermond, this article argues that religious thinking, practice and institutions had considerable influence on urban planning. Religious views and ideas played an important role in the spatial tra…
Towards a synergy between ‘content’ and ‘process’ in Dutch spatial planning
Spatial planning in the Netherlands is shifting from regulatory toward more developmental modes of planning. This paper explores the background of these changes and discusses current approaches to developmental planning, especially in rural areas. It combines views reflected in planning theory with the accumulated experiences of a project in the southern part of the Netherlands, called Heuvelland. The Heuvelland project is aimed at the mobilisati…
The Heritage of the Productive Landscape
In the current debate about the future of the Dutch countryside, more and more attention is drawn to the role of landscape heritage. Spatial designers are asked to translate historic identities into spatial forms in order to bridge the gap between past and future. Special cultural heritage policies are developed to stimulate a shift in design practice and to increase awareness of the value of cultural landscapes. Because interpretation of the rur…
Sustainable development and protected landscapes
In 2004, the Dutch government published a policy paper on spatial planning that sets out a framework for the designation of so-called ‘National Landscapes’, large areas of inhabited countryside with specific historic elements, geomorphology, natural character and openness. This represents the latest attempt to introduce IUCN Category V protected areas into the Netherlands. National Landscapes are of international importance because they are eithe…
Modernising Dutch Heritage Conservation
Over the last decades, Dutch heritage conservation shifted from a preservationist and object‐focused to an area‐based and development‐oriented activity. Today's heritage management looks not only at the monument itself, but at its spatial context. The Belvedere Memorandum in 1999 has played a key role in getting the heritage onto the spatial planning agenda. Linking heritage to the spatial challenges of cities and regions was also the primary goa…
Heritage planning and spatial development in the Netherlands
In recent years, the separation of heritage conservation concerns and spatial planning concerns – a spectre of post-war modernism – is being criticised. Numerous commentators argue that heritage conservation needs to rethink its purpose and role if it is to maintain its place in the planning system specifically and urban and rural development more generally. This paper analyses the Belvedere Memorandum and its incentive programme (1999–2009) by w…
Religiously inspired urbanism
The discourse on twentieth-century urban planning has hidden from view the way religion (re)shaped the urban landscape. By analysing the interaction between urban development and Catholic politics in the southern Dutch provincial cities of Eindhoven and Roermond, this article argues that religious thinking, practice and institutions had considerable influence on urban planning. Religious views and ideas played an important role in the spatial tra…
Reinventing Dutch national spatial planning
Over recent decades, Dutch spatial planning shifted from strong national direction towards increasing decentralization. Today, urgent societal challenges such as housing, energy, and climate adaptation are reigniting calls for a renewed national role. This paper examines the current turnaround in Dutch planning debates and explores future options. Drawing on an advisory report of the Dutch Council for the Environment and Infrastructure, we outlin…
Geography (6 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Civil engineering (3 works) · Cultural heritage (3 works) · Cultural heritage management (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works)