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Ensuring Public Access to Green Spaces in Urban Densification: The Role of Planning and Property Rights

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  • Jessica Verheij
  • Deniz Ay
  • Jean-David Gerber
  • Stéphane Nahrath

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Implementing densification while ensuring green space accessibility is a crucial planning challenge. The powerful role of private for-profit actors densification projects mean that green spaces are at risk of being co-opted by private interests and transformed into club goods. Using a new-institutionalist approach, we analyse the implementation of densification and urban greening based on two case-studies in Switzerland and the Netherlands. We ask what planning strategies are successful in ensuring public access to green spaces in private-led densification. To counteract club formation, planners need to restrict property rights, actively monitor implementation of planning objectives, and ensure an open physical design.

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  • Jessica Verheij & Deniz Ay & Jean-David Gerber & Stéphane Nahrath, 2023. "Ensuring Public Access to Green Spaces in Urban Densification: The Role of Planning and Property Rights," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 342-365, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rptpxx:v:24:y:2023:i:3:p:342-365
    DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2023.2239215
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