Public Entrepreneurship in Private Land Markets: Contracting Dilemmas around Selling Amsterdam’s Major Prison

Edwin Buitelaar; Martijn van den Hurk; Ed Nozeman; Christine  Oude Veldhuis

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Public Entrepreneurship in Private Land Markets: Contracting Dilemmas around Selling Amsterdam’s Major Prison

Edwin Buitelaar, Martijn van den Hurk, Ed Nozeman, Christine Oude Veldhuis

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Abstract

Most planning theories are based on the assumption that there is a homogenous public interest. However, planning agencies are driven by multiple and conflicting interests in practice. This article conceptualises and empirically investigates these interests in an “extreme case” of active public land policy: the Dutch state selling Amsterdam’s Bijlmer prison. Three types of dilemmas or conflicting interests that arose in the Bijlmer prison case are examined: prioritising price or social value, organizing a private transaction or a public tender, and choosing flexibility or certainty. Although these are matters of principle, subjective, pragmatic and context-specific choices determine the ultimate balance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	248-264
Number of pages	17
Journal	Planning Theory and Practice
Volume	23
Issue number	2
Early online date	Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2022.2034923
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by RVB (Rijksvastgoedbedrijf), which is the Central Government Real Estate Agency in the Netherlands.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

Public entrepreneurship
contracting
land markets
public choice

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