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- Title
Planning doctrine and post-industrial urban development: the Amsterdam experience
- Authors
Cortie, Cees
- Abstract
Urban planners have to develop a planning doctrine (Faludi and Van der Valk 1990). This concept stands for a body of thoughts concerning (a) spatial arrangements within an area, (b) the development of that area; and (c) the way both should be handled. To be successful, they need a planning community (planners, top officials and sub-national establishments for political support) that nurtures it. The planners of the Amsterdam General Extension Plan (1935) developed a doctrine that covers three levels of functions and activities: (1) Amsterdam is a regional center, a closed functional system, an orthogenetic city. (2) a monocentric urban form and (3) homogeneous neighborhood communities around a common neighborhood center (church, school, medical services, shops). Since the early 1970s Amsterdam has become (1) an international center, a heterogenetic city, part of a network city system, (2) has developed into a polycentric urban region, and (3) has beenacquiring ethnically mixed quarters, divided communities losing their basic function as common neighborhood centers and even as 'control areas' or 'domains' (Hagerstrand 1970). So in Amsterdam the planning-doctrine was not particularly successful.
- Subjects
CITIES &; towns; PLANNING
- Publication
GeoJournal, 1997, Vol 43, Issue 4, p351
- ISSN
0343-2521
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1006817307686