Adaptive planning: Generating conditions for urban adaptability. Lessons from Dutch organic development strategies

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1052-1074

  Rauws, Ward ^a   De Roo, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

flexibility; responsiveness; self organization; Uncertainty; urban planning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CAPACITY BUILDING; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; PLANNING PROCESS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84992690618     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265813516658886     Document Type: Article

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