Abstract
Zoning is one of the key roles of land use regulation by the state. In engaging with this land use regulation, developers do not stay put and passively await rules to be imposed upon them. Instead, they proactively seek to (co)produce new rules or change existing rules to their advantage: they are ‘institutional entrepreneurs.’ We analyze how institutional entrepreneurship strategies play out empirically in Rijnenburg, a large greenfield site located southeast of the city of Utrecht. We find a complex and reciprocal interrelationship between planning decisions on the one hand and strategies of developers on the other.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 677-696 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Planning Theory & Practice |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: this work was supported by Utrecht University's strategic theme 'Pathways to Sustainability.'
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| Utrecht University |
Keywords
- Land-use regulation
- developers
- institutional entrepreneurship
- institutions
- zoning
