Print Email Facebook Twitter Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands Title Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands Author Shahab, Sina (Cardiff University) Hartmann, Thomas (Wageningen University & Research; University of J.E. Purkyne) Jonkman, Arend (TU Delft Housing Institutions & Governance) Date 2020 Abstract How do municipalities strategically use land policy to develop land for housing? The development of housing is a challenge for many European countries, though the scale and time of it differs. Issues are not always about the absolute number of houses that need to be supplied in a country. The distribution and quality of houses affect the demand for housing. Land policy determines where and how future developments take place, and as a result, it has a considerable impact on both supply and demand of housing. Municipalities use different strategies of land policy to pursue housing goals. This paper aims to explore the rationalities underpinning such strategies of land policy. Therefore, a theory on pluralism – Cultural Theory – is employed to understand municipal strategies in different contexts, i.e. Germany (Ruhr region), Belgium (Flanders), and Netherlands. Applying Cultural Theory to land policy results in four ideal-typical strategies of active, passive, reactive, and protective land policies. Despite the fact that the decisions of municipalities are made within (or constrained by) their institutional environments (i.e. national/regional planning systems, development cultures, etc.), we found that there are key similarities between the strategies of the studied municipalities regardless of their different institutional environments. Subject Cultural TheoryLand policyhousinginstrumentsstrategy1M Homes To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ca77a04f-511e-4a25-a9bd-61a643442fb0 DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2020.1817867 ISSN 0965-4313 Source European Planning Studies, 29 (2021) (6), 1132-1150 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 Sina Shahab, Thomas Hartmann, Arend Jonkman Files PDF 09654313.2020.pdf 2.1 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ca77a04f-511e-4a25-a9bd-61a643442fb0/datastream/OBJ/view