Rule and Order Dutch Planning Doctrine in the Twentieth Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Background

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-6

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   2. The Concept of Planning Doctrine

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 7-25

   3. Context and Roots of Strategic Planning

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 26-44

3. The Unfolding of Planning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-50

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   2. “Planning is Like Pregnancy, You Can’t have Just a Little”

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 51-67

   3. The Morning after: May 10th, 1940 and the Consequences

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 68-80

4. Reconstruction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-87

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   2. Thinking on One’s Feet

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 88-100

   3. A New Rationale

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 101-112

5. The Heyday

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-121

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   2. Planners Find their Feet

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 122-138

   3. Doctrine at the Zenith

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 139-151

   4. Provincial Planning the Linchpin?

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 152-162

   5. The Taste of Success

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 163-175

6. Crisis and Response

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 176-184

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   2. The Seeds of Doubt

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 185-201

   3. Forward Defense

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 202-216

   4. A Return to the Roots?

      • Andreas Faludi, Arnold Van Der Valk

      Pages 217-231

7. Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 232-232

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This book is about an art in which the Netherlands excels: strategic planning. Foreign observers will need little convincing of the merits of Dutch planning. They will want to know whether routine explanations (small country, industrious, disciplined people hardened by the perennial fight against the sea) hold any water, and they will want to know where to look for the bag of tricks of Dutch planners. Dutch readers need to be convinced first that planning in the Netherlands is indeed effective before contemplating how this has come about. Our message for both is that, to the extent that Dutch planners do live in what others are inclined to see as a planners' paradise, it is a paradise carefully constructed and maintained by the planners themselves. This smacks of Bernard Shaw describing a profession as a conspiracy against laity. However, all knowledge and all technologies are 'socially constructed', meaning that they are the products of people or groups pursuing often conflicting aims and coming to arrangements about what is to pass as 'true' and 'good'. So this takes away the odium of Dutch planners having their own agenda. Positioning ourselves We are in the business of interpreting Dutch planning, and at the same time committed to improving it. This makes us part of the situation which we describe. This situation is characterized by the existence of two divergent traditions, urban design and the social-science discipline called 'planologie'.

• Policy
• geography
• history
• research

• Institute for Planning and Demography, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Andreas Faludi, Arnold Valk

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