Private sector-led urban development projects: Collaborative and managerial lessons from the Netherlands and the UK

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Consultants as intermediaries: Their perceptions on citizen involvement in urban development

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
EW Stapper ◽  
M Van der Veen ◽  
LB Janssen-Jansen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Citizen Involvement ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Insight Into

Planning consultants are increasingly hired to organize citizen participation processes for urban development projects. However, the ways in which planning consultants engage in and perceive the involvement of citizens in urban development projects remain relatively understudied. This article opens the black box of consultancy employees’ perceptions toward citizens in urban development processes. Employees from two consultancy firms in the Netherlands were interviewed, and several focus groups were organized. This research shows that consultants have wide-ranging views concerning the ways of incorporating citizens’ interests in urban development projects. With the use of Q-methodology, a typology of how consultants engage with citizens is proposed. Furthermore, we show that the different perceptions of consultants lead to a different approach in identifying the needs and problems of citizens. This finding gives insight into the context in which decisions about urban development are made.

The just city e la nuova epoca dei mega-progetti

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Susan S. Fainstein
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
European American ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
Fair Distribution

In recent years large urban development projects (mega-projects) have become frequent in European, American and Asian cities. Surprising physical similarities can be seen between the types of project and in the orientation towards the market and the private sector. However, the ways in which the objectives of physical and social transformation are pursued are different. This paper investigates recent mega-projects in New York, London, Amsterdam and Singapore, cities which represent a wide range of variables in the capitalist ownership regime. The comparison shows that public-private partnerships can bring public benefi ts, but also that these mega-projects are risky for both parties and produce environments of poor urban quality. Further more the fair distribution of the impacts of these projects is the result of government commitment to the production of social benefi ts.

scholarly journals Overcoming Systemic Barriers Preventing Healthy Urban Development in the UK: Main Findings from Interviewing Senior Decision-Makers During a 3-Year Planetary Health Pilot

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Black ◽  
Paul Pilkington ◽  
Ben Williams ◽  
Janet Ige ◽  
Emily Prestwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis paper sets out the main findings from two rounds of interviews with senior representatives from the UK’s urban development industry: the third and final phase of a 3-year pilot, Moving Health Upstream in Urban Development’ (UPSTREAM). The project had two primary aims: firstly, to attempt to value economically the health cost-benefits associated with the quality of urban environments and, secondly, to interview those in control of urban development in the UK in order to reveal the potential barriers to, and opportunities for, the creation of healthy urban environments, including their views on the use of economic valuation of (planetary) health outcomes. Much is known about the ‘downstream’ impact of urban environments on human and planetary health and about how to design and plan healthy towns and cities (‘midstream’), but we understand relatively little about how health can be factored in at key governance tipping points further ‘upstream’, particularly within dominant private sector areas of control (e.g. land, finance, delivery) at sub-national level. Our findings suggest that both public and private sector appeared well aware of the major health challenges posed by poor-quality urban environments. Yet they also recognized that health is not factored adequately into the urban planning process, and there was considerable support for greater use of non-market economic valuation to help improve decision-making. There was no silver bullet however: 110 barriers and 76 opportunities were identified across a highly complex range of systems, actors and processes, including many possible points of targeted intervention for economic valuation. Eight main themes were identified as key areas for discussion and future focus. This findings paper is the second of two on this phase of the project: the first sets out the rationale, approach and methodological lessons learned.

Lessons from Canada's Housing R&D Experience

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Hack ◽  
A Skaburskis
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Program Administrators ◽  
History Of ◽  
Subsidy Programs

In this paper the history of Canadian Housing R&D programs is reviewed and the strengths and weaknesses of these programs are assessed. Government programs that sought to promote innovation directly, subsidy programs for the private sector, and demonstration programs are looked at. Urban development projects as well as small-scale technological innovation dissemination efforts are considered, and the lessons that program administrators have gained from past programs and present guidelines for program design are presented.

Asylum-seekers falsely implicating themselves in international crimes: Should they be informed of the existence of Article 1F of the Refugee Convention?

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Brian Moore ◽  
Joris van Wijk
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Refugee Claim ◽  
The Uk ◽  
National Governments

Case studies in the Netherlands and the UK of asylum applicants excluded or under consideration of exclusion pursuant to Article 1Fa of the Refugee Convention reveal that some applicants falsely implicated themselves in serious crimes or behaviours in order to enhance their refugee claim. This may have serious consequences for the excluded persons themselves, as well as for national governments dealing with them. For this reason we suggest immigration authorities could consider forewarning asylum applicants i.e. before their interview, about the existence, purpose and possible consequences of exclusion on the basis of Article 1F.

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