Social trust: An invisible glue for better urban planning

Social trust: An invisible glue for better urban planning

Buiksloterham is an old industrial waterfront area north of central Amsterdam. Gas and oil producer Shell used to be located here, as was an airplane factory, shipbuilder and other assorted manufacturing. But the companies have moved out, leaving an empty site with polluted soil. Amsterdam city plan...

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Published in:The OECD observer pp. 1 - 3
Main Author: Krawchenko, Tamara
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 28-05-2020
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Subjects:
Buildings
Cities
Citizen participation
Collaboration
Construction
governance
Land use planning
Pollution
Publishing
Redevelopment
Soil
Soil pollution
Trends
Trust
Urban planning
Urban policy
Czech Republic
Netherlands
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Summary:Buiksloterham is an old industrial waterfront area north of central Amsterdam. Gas and oil producer Shell used to be located here, as was an airplane factory, shipbuilder and other assorted manufacturing. But the companies have moved out, leaving an empty site with polluted soil. Amsterdam city planners took a novel approach: they opened Buiksloterham to bidders for temporary use, with the site development criteria of building structures without foundations (due to soil issues) and fixing up the area. Rather than imposing a detailed urban plan for the area, they established “rules of development”, which allowed latitude in terms of construction, but made requirements regarding mixed commercial/residential use, and the height and density of buildings.
ISSN:0029-7054
1561-5529
DOI:10.1787/560c2ef5-en