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Rule and Order Dutch Planning Doctrine in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
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Rule and Order Dutch Planning Doctrine in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
Series: GeoJournal Library, 28
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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'.
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